dgo.to: A drupal.org URL shortener

Posted by nvahalik on April 28, 2010 at 2:55am

Announcing dgo.to! A URL mapper for drupal.org (lovingly called "drupal goto"). dgo.to shortens and smartens URLs that map to drupal.org pages. See the examples below:

Users

Users will automatically be searched and forwarded to the proper page.

dgo.to/@webchick → http://drupal.org/user/24967

IRC handles

IRC handles will also be searched and then forwarded to the proper page.

dgo.to/irc/emspace → http://drupal.org/user/35266

API

dgo.to/a/hook_menu → http://api.drupal.org/hook_menu

Any comments/suggestions are welcome!

Comments

There's a module for that :)

Posted by z.stolar on April 28, 2010 at 8:16am

Or at least for Drupal projects: http://drupal.org/project/dopl

However, you took it further, and it will work on non-drupal applications as well - great idea!

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Linking to comments

Posted by marcvangend on April 30, 2010 at 8:38pm

Nice, thanks!

I'm happy to see that it even works when linking to specific comments. Currently this works:
http://dgo.to/444228#comment-2625826 → http://drupal.org/node/444228#comment-2625826

However, you could consider adding a shorter way to link to comments, for instance:
http://dgo.to/444228/2625826 → http://drupal.org/node/444228#comment-2625826

It's a smartener: why not

Posted by Josh The Geek on May 5, 2011 at 11:20pm

It's a smartener: why not just put the comment number on the page, not the cid?

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Drupal.org
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linking to a comment doesn't work

Posted by aaronbauman on September 19, 2011 at 5:53pm

support for linking to a comment doesn't seem to work anymore.
dunno if this applies to all URL fragments, or just comments.