dgo.to: A drupal.org URL shortener

By nvahalik on 28 Apr 2010 at 02:55 UTC

Announcing dgo.to! A URL mapper for drupal.org (lovingly called "drupal goto"). dgo.to shortens and smartens URLs that map to drupal.org pages. See the examples below:

Users

Users will automatically be searched and forwarded to the proper page.

dgo.to/@webchick → http://drupal.org/user/24967

IRC handles

IRC handles will also be searched and then forwarded to the proper page.

dgo.to/irc/emspace → http://drupal.org/user/35266

API

dgo.to/a/hook_menu → http://api.drupal.org/hook_menu

Any comments/suggestions are welcome!

Comments

There's a module for that :)

z.stolar commented 28 April 2010 at 08:16

Or at least for Drupal projects: http://drupal.org/project/dopl

However, you took it further, and it will work on non-drupal applications as well - great idea!

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Linking to comments

marcvangend

he/him

Dutch

Amsterdam

commented 30 April 2010 at 20:38

Nice, thanks!

I'm happy to see that it even works when linking to specific comments. Currently this works:
http://dgo.to/444228#comment-2625826 → http://drupal.org/node/444228#comment-2625826

However, you could consider adding a shorter way to link to comments, for instance:
http://dgo.to/444228/2625826 → http://drupal.org/node/444228#comment-2625826

It's a smartener: why not

Josh The Geek commented 5 May 2011 at 23:20

It's a smartener: why not just put the comment number on the page, not the cid?

linking to a comment doesn't work

AaronBauman

he/him

commented 19 September 2011 at 17:53

support for linking to a comment doesn't seem to work anymore.
dunno if this applies to all URL fragments, or just comments.

I can't believe it took me

nvahalik commented 10 November 2013 at 21:35

I can't believe it took me two years to finally see these comments. I'm not certain why it stopped working, but the new version I'm working on will fix this properly.