First of all I would like to thank all my readers for their huge response on my last article on “Google Plus Invitation Trick”. Google Plus is really an awesome social networking platform. After using it for some time, I am very satisfied with its uncluttered design and rich UI. The most appealing feature is the division of your contact list into circles which gives us full control on the visibility of our content.

After spending a lot of time on Google Plus, I also came across an issue, i.e., it didn’t had an option to have share friendly URLs like, Twitter(http://www.twitter.com/shubhamoy) or Facebook(http://www.facebook.com/shubhamoy) rather is uses profile ID similar to Orkut.So I thought of writing a Nickname Generator in PHP, which would enable us to share our Google Plus profiles easily till Google implements it. This will generate a nickname like gp.me/shubhamoy.

For generating a short url, we need to enter our desired nickname and oour Profile ID. Check the following image for getting the Profile ID.

Requirements:

Following are the basic requirements to implement Google Nickname Generator on your domain:

1. A short domain name, e.g., http://gp.me or http://gp.to
2. PHP
3. MySQL
4. jQuery (Google jQuery API Key)

Shubhamoy

An engineer by chance and a blogger by choice. Love to share my knowledge with the masses. My main focus is always on open source technologies and latest gadgets. This blog provides me the platform to cherish my passion.

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