CGI::Shorten - Creating your shortened links
This module may help you to build a personal shortening-link service. Feeding the long, verbose, and tedious url, it can return you a shortened one. And it can also print out redirection header in you CGI script.
use CGI::Shorten;
$sh = new CGI::Shorten ( db_prefix => ".shorten_", script_url => 'http://my.host/shorten.pl', );
You need to specify the prefix of databases to the constructor and may specify the url of the script that does the shortening task. The script's url defaults to 'http://127.0.0.1/shorten.pl'
print $sh->shorten($url);
print $sh->lengthen($url);
print $sh->redirect($url);
If the redirected url does not exist, it will return 404 Not Found.
xern <xern@cpan.org>
This module is free software; you can redistribute it or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
To install CGI::Shorten, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm CGI::Shorten
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install CGI::Shorten
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.