This service shortens long URLs and verifies each submission with a reputable antivirus provider. Users can then share these links on social media or save them as QR codes. Deferred redirects can increase the overall revenue.

Features

• Unlimited short URLs
• Deferred redirect
• URL diagnostic
• Auto-copy button
• QR code generation
• Social Sharing
• Responsive UI
• Developer API
• Admin panel

Applications demo

Online Demo

Documentation

Online Documentation

Requirements

Download and upload http://short.php8developer.com/requirements.php (copy and open in a new tab) file to your web server and run it via browser to see whether you can run URL Shortener on your server.

Developer API

Developers can use the API to shorten long URLs. Example Request

https://short.php8developer.com/api?url=http://php8developer.com

Response

{"long":"http:\/\/php8developer.com","short":"https:\/\/short.php8developer.com\/pB"}

Changelog

v 1.9 – 2026.04.08

• PHP 8.3, PHP 8.4 support
• Additional antivirus services support
• SEO rel canonical support
• Better error handling UX
• HTTP request refactoring and improvements
• Other small fixes

v 1.8 – 2024.01.05

• PHP 8.2 support
• Framework update
• Added Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions pages to meet Google Ads 16 January 2024 requirements
• Changed QR code generator provider
• Small fixes

v 1.7 – 2022.03.27

• Added possibility to restrict certain URLs
• Integrated Google Safe Browsing API

v 1.6 – 2021.09.18

• Small bug fix

v 1.5 – 2021.06.26

• Classname typo fix
• UI text bug fix

v 1.4 – 2021.06.25

• PHP 7.4/8 support
• MySQL strict mode support
• Updated theme

v 1.3 – 2019.05.30

• PHP 7.3, PHP 7.2, PHP 7.1 Support
• MySQL strict mode support

v 1.2 – 2018.02.11

• Flash clipboard replaced by javascript clipboard
• Timer on redirect page is not active when the browser tab is not active

v 1.1 – 2016.11.20

• Excluded possibility to generate short URLs from the same host. i.e. you can’t short “mydomain.com/xxx” URL if you installed script in “mydomain.com”

v 1.0 – 2016.01.10

• Updated Cookie EU Law Javascript plugin

v 0.9 – 2015.09.28

• Solution for EU cookie law

v 0.8 – 2015.03.23

• Small bug fixes

v 0.7 – 2015.02.17

• Improved URL recognition pattern

v 0.6 – 2015.02.06

• HTML, JS, PHP bug fixes

v 0.5 – 2015.01.07

• Some bug fixes

v 0.4 – 2014.06.05

• Unique title on “redirect” page
• Possibility to set a limit of requests for users
• The same URL can be shortened only once

v 0.3

• Standalone QR code generator

v 0.2

• Deferred redirect

v 0.1

• Bug fixes