Let the blog see the rabbit...

One of the suggested project ideas on the new SUCS AdminWiki is ShortURL.

I've had a go at implementing this at http://sucs.org/~dez/url - it's still work in progress, but it's working. I've got to sort out a problem with its detection of invalid URLs. It currently doesn't like addresses like "http://google.co.uk" - it wants "http://google.co.uk/" instead. There's probably a PHP function somewhere to take care of this.

I've not implemented authentication on the basis that that's something the new SUCS website should be taking care of site-wide, rather than members having to log in individually to each tool.