LinkSnap - URL Shortener with Analytics & QR Codes

LinkSnap is a lightweight, self-contained PHP + MySQL URL shortener you can deploy on any shared hosting account in minutes, no Composer, no Node build step, no framework to learn. Paste a long URL and get a short, shareable link with an optional custom alias, then track every click on a clean admin dashboard with a per-link analytics page and a 14-day activity chart. Every link automatically gets its own QR code, generated by a QR encoder written entirely in plain PHP, so it keeps working even with zero outbound internet access. It's the perfect drop-in link-shortening tool for freelancers and agencies to brand, resell, or bundle into client projects.

Features:

- One-page public link shortener with optional custom alias and optional expiry date

- Password-protected admin dashboard: view every link, its status, and its click count

- Per-link analytics: total clicks, a 14-day clicks-per-day bar chart, and a recent-clicks log (time, referrer, user agent)

- Automatic QR code for every short link via a bundled, dependency-free pure-PHP encoder (PNG or SVG, no external API required)

- Enable, disable, edit-destination, or permanently delete any link

- Friendly "link expired" and "link disabled" pages instead of broken redirects

- Duplicate custom-alias protection with a clear, friendly error message

- Optional pretty-URL rewrite for yoursite.com/code instead of yoursite.com/r.php?c=code

- Security built-in: PDO prepared statements everywhere, CSRF-protected admin actions, bcrypt password hashing, escaped output, honeypot + rate-limited public form

- Clean, modern, fully responsive UI styled with CSS variables, easy to reskin for any brand

New in version 2:

- Click-count based link expiration alongside the existing date-based expiration

- Tags for organizing and filtering links on the dashboard

- Device and browser detection on every click, plus bulk enable/disable/delete for links

- Per-visitor rate limiting on login and link creation, and new security headers

- Pagination on the links list and each link's click history, with copy-to-clipboard on the link detail page

Existing v1 customers can upgrade their database in place using the upgrade guide included with the download.

Requirements

PHP 7.4 or newer MySQL 5.7+ or MariaDB 10.3+

Compatibility

PHP 7.4 - 8.3, MySQL/MariaDB