I hope you all got a clear picture in the first part. We only covered the CSS and Front End part, now we need to create actions and validations page to shorten the link successfully.
For validating and showing results we will be using Mootools (a AJAX framework) i will not be explaining in detail on mootools right now.

» Read more: HowTo: Create your own Bit.ly website from Scratch – Part 2

Shortening a long URL into a short one is now becoming very famous and especially in sites like twitter and blogs. I was always think that i need to share something that is useful for people and finally decide to show you guys how to create a tiny url site like Bit.ly or Tinyurl.com

First the requirements:

If you are doing on your local machine:

You require the following
1. Apache
2. PHP
3. MySQL

» Read more: HowTo: Create your own Bit.ly website from Scratch – Part 1