How to: Automatically provide tinyurls for your WordPress blog posts

54 Responses

Feb 14 2009 16:26

Hello,

This way have a warning on PHP. In your php.ini your “allow_url_fopen” must be enabled. In some servers we can not modify our php.ini. So you can do it using curl.

$ch = curl_init( );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_URL, “http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=”.$url );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
$tinyurl = curl_exec( );

To use this method, the curl must be enabled in your php.ini and instaled. But, in the most shared servers, this option is enabled by default. Otherside you can do the same example using sockets. Are more complicated, but is enabled on installing the php.

Jean-Baptiste Jung

Feb 14 2009 17:38

Thanks Mike for this useful info

Sarbjit Singh

Feb 14 2009 17:52

A very nice trick once again..

Thank you

Hope the API does not create duplicate tiny urls as my twitter plugin for wordpress also created tinyurl links at times.

tucsoncarinsuranceguy

Feb 15 2009 04:10

One of my buddies is always talking about your blog at work – finally came and checked it out today, nice work! I’m subscribing to your rss feed – keep on posting!

joyoge designers’ bookmark

Feb 22 2009 14:40

thanks for the useful tip..

Çağrı

Feb 22 2009 18:12

thanks,its usefull for me

Oyun

Feb 26 2009 19:15

thanks a lot..!!

Bruce

Mar 09 2009 19:45

Very helpful recipe I modified it so that it works on (mt) via cURL and incorporated the TinyURL into a hyperlink for submission to Twitter that also includes the title of the post:

http://www.bioneural.net/2009/03/09/latest-tweets-using-simplepie/

Adam

Apr 15 2009 18:08

This works great for creating a link on the post page but how do integrate it with my home built tweet this code so people can click the link and have the tiny url show up with the title post in the Twitter UI? Code below:

Thanks,

Adam

<a href=”http://twitter.com/home?status=I just read ” title=”Send this page to Twitter!” target=”_blank”> Send this post to Twitter

Tschai

Apr 15 2009 22:54

After having being inspired by a comment on your Smasing Post about automatically providing tinyurls I’ve tried and succeeded using WordPress’ default URL’s and it works just the same:
http://aytemir.com/need-a-short-url-service-try-wordpress/

So anybody with not too long URl should realy consider that instead of a third party tool, I think.

Jean-Baptiste Jung

Apr 15 2009 23:58

@Tschai: Very great trick, I’ll make a recipe with thi sone