Note that this project is no longer being maintained and I had developed it while I was getting my head around Laravel and now I notice a lot of things that could have been done the better way.

#RasP.is RasP.is is a URL shortener built on top of Laravel 4. It is not only a URL shortener but also a URL manager that allows the registered users to save and shorten their bookmarks with nice descriptions. Before we go ahead with the detail on how to use it, below is the overview of thee features that RasP.is provides.

#Overview

• It has a user's module that allows the users to register for an account, login and manage their profile
• Unregistered users may shorten their URLs from the homepage of the site.
• Registered users can not only shorten their URLs but also keep a record of their shortened URLs, save bookmarks.
• For the shortened URLs, the controller does a 301 redirect, which is the recommended type of redirect for maintaining maximum google juice to the original URL.
• A unique 6 character alphanumeric code is generated for each shortened link
• Registered users can check the number of times their URL was accessed through the shortened URL.
• Just so you know, there are places where use of Javascript would have been a better choice (like form submissions etc.) but I have tried to do everything using Laravel so you might not see that much use of Javascript.

#How to setup Follow the below steps to get it working locally

• Clone the repository
• Copy it where your webserver may be able to access it.
• Run the following command inside the project directory

composer install

• Now go to mysql and create the database named raspis
• Head to the app/config/database.php and enter your database settings
• Now go to app/config/raspis.php and for the url key provide the url that will be prefixed with the shortcode. Probably the URL through which you can access the project. I had virtual servers setup so I put raspis.loc, you may replace it with localhost/raspis-url-shortener/ or whatever the name of the project directory is. However, don't forget the trailing slash.
• Head back to the project directory and perform the following command

php artisan migrate

• That's it, you are all set up ...start shortening your URLs.

#Contribute You are welcome to contribute. You may do it so by following steps

• Clone the repository
• Add some features or improve the existing ones
• Open up a pull request

Also please do report the bugs that you may find by opening an issue or hit me by an email at kamranahmed.se@gmail.com