What is urX? urX is a url shortening application written in php and making use of mod_rewrite. It allows for people to take exceedingly long urls and shorten them to something that will not break in emails. It allows users to mask urls by and hide such things as affiliate links. For instance, a user has a url from a site that looks like this
http://www.somesite.com/index.php?a=1&id=asass7ds76756saf8df9g0dhfg87s6df89s8df8&mod=go&search=some+search+phrase+bla+blah
it is so super long and incredulous to look at. By using urX the user can turn that link into
http://usersdomain.com/dJt6
A much more pleasant url to look at. Not only does this allow for link masking, it allows registered users to track their link activity through logs and graphs.