Url Shortening Website using Laravel as FullStack

Table of Contents

1. About The Project
   • Built With
   • Structure
2. Getting Started
   • Prerequisites
   • Installation
   • Test
3. Usage
4. License

About The Project

This project is a basic URL-shortening service.

Built With

• PHP
• Laravel
• TailwindCSS

Getting Started

The project requires PHP v 8.02. You can download here. And manually upgrade PHP version of your desktop using this link Alternatively, you can install xampp server from here

Prerequisites

Make sure you have composer on your pc to run this project. You can download from here

Installation

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/codert0109/URL-Shortening-Service-Laravel-FullStack.git

2. Install NPM packages

   composer install

3. Create a .env file using the configuration in .env.example

   touch .env

4. Configurate the Database Create your own MySQL database which saves urls named urlshorted(You can change this db name in .env). If needs, change your username and password in .env

5. Migrate and Seed the Database

   php artisan migrate

   php artisan db:seed

6. Start the project

   php artisan serve

7. Deploy the project When deploy this project, make sure that you have changed DOMAIN_URL in .env. Also make sure that set the cron job to delete unactive links which is not visited for last 30 days/

Test

1. Run below command

   php artisan test

Usage

To add url, input the long-url and click submit.

If a url is not visited for 30 days, then it will automatically be removed.

License

Distributed under the MIT License.