Developer tools

An API module that allows the creation of branded short URLs.

This module is a developer tool that takes URL of any length and produces very short URLs (3-5 characters).

For the User-Interface integration you may want to check-out: Shorten module.

Who Needs This?

You need this module if:

• You are creating a localized URL shortener for a country/locale that exisitng URL shorteners do not cover.
• You system is behind a firewall and content/URLs can not be shared publicly.
• If you want short URLs to carry your own domain, for brand management purposes, much like TechCrunch.com uses http://tcrn.ch domain for short URLs (they do not use this module for the implementation, though, as far as we know :) )

Who uses it?

• http://wh.gov
• http://go.usa.gov
• http://bmu.li
• http://cmd.to
• http://drupa.ly/
• http://ncrv.nl/
• http://redir.is/

(Please submit examples of other usages, if you are using shorturl to run your shortener).

Credits

Created and maintained by: Phase2 Technology
Development on this module was done as part of the Whitehouse.gov project and was sponsored by The Executive Office of the President.

Integration

PHP4 module contains PHP5 functions which have been rewritten to make it compatible with PHP4.
Of course this module can't provide full support for PHP5, it's only defining the compatible functions.

You don't need to install this module, when you can install PEAR PHP_Compat instead.
Try:

pear install PHP_Compat-1.6.0a2

PHP_Compat Page: http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_Compat
If you can't do that, then install it.

Supported Functions

We needed a batch of capabilities associated with what would normally be considered affiliation, i.e., an affiliate sells or recommends your products. These capabilities either weren't available via other modules or weren't available for both Drupal 5 and Drupal 6.

Landing Pages is a "swiss army knife". It provides an internal interface (documentation will eventually be provided) so that new capabilities associated with landing pages can be developed. As shipped we provide the following add-ons:

• click - Count each arrival at a landing page.
• cookie - Emit a cookie upon arrival at a landing page.
• redirect - Redirect from the landing page to some other page.
• switchtheme - Switch the theme of your site upon arrival at the landing page.
• ubercart - Keep track of products purchased through ubercart

Each landing page can be associated with zero or more referrers. Additional add-ons can be written to operate only when the landing page is reached via a valid referrer.

Landing pages is somewhat idiosyncratic and specific to the needs of my current client. However the add-on capability allows the generation of some very powerful capabilities very easily.

For those in need of a complete affiliation module, I would suggest something on the order of affiliate2.

This module is being deprecated.

This module is a group of modules that helps you handle some of the common tasks of an organization.

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