DIG schrieb:
It could be some kind of hash of article's title.
This way it will be reasonably unique, and it can be kept in the database. Then, when the
short URL is requested, the corresponding value substitutes the shorten URL.
That wouldn't help when renaming/moving articles. To my mind the most
straightforward solution would be to access the article by it's database
id which is both short _and_ (project wise) unique. Naturally you need
some special syntax for that to avoid overlapping with articles that
have numerical titles.
Ciao, Michael.