如果你不想重新发明轮子……http://lilurl.sourceforge.net/

为什么不直接生成一个随机字符串并将其附加到基本URL?这是一个非常简化的c#版本。

static string chars = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890";
static string baseUrl = "https://google.com/";

private static string RandomString(int length)
{
    char[] s = new char[length];
    Random rnd = new Random();
    for (int x = 0; x < length; x++)
    {
        s[x] = chars[rnd.Next(chars.Length)];
    }
    Thread.Sleep(10);

    return new String(s);
}

然后添加一个随机字符串到baseURL:

string tinyURL = baseUrl + RandomString(5);

记住，这是一个非常简化的版本，RandomString方法可能会创建重复的字符串。在生产中，您需要考虑重复的字符串，以确保始终拥有唯一的URL。我有一些代码，通过查询我可以共享的数据库表来考虑重复的字符串，如果任何人感兴趣的话。

你是故意省略O 0和i的吗?

我刚刚基于Ryan的解决方案创建了一个PHP类。

<?php

    $shorty = new App_Shorty();

    echo 'ID: ' . 1000;
    echo '<br/> Short link: ' . $shorty->encode(1000);
    echo '<br/> Decoded Short Link: ' . $shorty->decode($shorty->encode(1000));


    /**
     * A nice shorting class based on Ryan Charmley's suggestion see the link on Stack Overflow below.
     * @author Svetoslav Marinov (Slavi) | http://WebWeb.ca
     * @see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/742013/how-to-code-a-url-shortener/10386945#10386945
     */
    class App_Shorty {
        /**
         * Explicitly omitted: i, o, 1, 0 because they are confusing. Also use only lowercase ... as
         * dictating this over the phone might be tough.
         * @var string
         */
        private $dictionary = "abcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz23456789";
        private $dictionary_array = array();

        public function __construct() {
            $this->dictionary_array = str_split($this->dictionary);
        }

        /**
         * Gets ID and converts it into a string.
         * @param int $id
         */
        public function encode($id) {
            $str_id = '';
            $base = count($this->dictionary_array);

            while ($id > 0) {
                $rem = $id % $base;
                $id = ($id - $rem) / $base;
                $str_id .= $this->dictionary_array[$rem];
            }

            return $str_id;
        }

        /**
         * Converts /abc into an integer ID
         * @param string
         * @return int $id
         */
        public function decode($str_id) {
            $id = 0;
            $id_ar = str_split($str_id);
            $base = count($this->dictionary_array);

            for ($i = count($id_ar); $i > 0; $i--) {
                $id += array_search($id_ar[$i - 1], $this->dictionary_array) * pow($base, $i - 1);
            }
            return $id;
        }
    }
?>

这是一个不错的PHP URL编码函数…

// From http://snipplr.com/view/22246/base62-encode--decode/
private function base_encode($val, $base=62, $chars='0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ') {
    $str = '';
    do {
        $i = fmod($val, $base);
        $str = $chars[$i] . $str;
        $val = ($val - $i) / $base;
    } while($val > 0);
    return $str;
}

c#版本:

public class UrlShortener 
{
    private static String ALPHABET = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789";
    private static int    BASE     = 62;

    public static String encode(int num)
    {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

        while ( num > 0 )
        {
            sb.Append( ALPHABET[( num % BASE )] );
            num /= BASE;
        }

        StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
        for (int i = sb.Length - 1; i >= 0; i--)
        {
            builder.Append(sb[i]);
        }
        return builder.ToString(); 
    }

    public static int decode(String str)
    {
        int num = 0;

        for ( int i = 0, len = str.Length; i < len; i++ )
        {
            num = num * BASE + ALPHABET.IndexOf( str[(i)] ); 
        }

        return num;
    }   
}

下面是一个Node.js实现，可能是bit.ly。生成一个高度随机的七字符字符串。

它使用Node.js加密生成高度随机的25个字符集，而不是随机选择7个字符。

var crypto = require("crypto");
exports.shortURL = new function () {
    this.getShortURL = function () {
        var sURL = '',
            _rand = crypto.randomBytes(25).toString('hex'),
            _base = _rand.length;
        for (var i = 0; i < 7; i++)
            sURL += _rand.charAt(Math.floor(Math.random() * _rand.length));
        return sURL;
    };
}