Tags: Code, CodeIgniter, shortie, urls
Posted in Code, CodeIgniter, PHP, Uncategorized
Recently I needed code to shorten URLS and tweet said url as a twitter update. This all needed to happen in their existing CMS built using Codeigniter.
Turns out the twitter part was easy, thanks to simonmaddox’s nice twitter CI library. I got a few whiffs of a url shortening CI library around the web, but it looks like the code was no longer available. Oh well, a good excuse to knock up a new library!
Shortie is a simple library that uses curl to generate short urls using a number of different services. At the moment I have added support for four services:
Check out the user guide, which was created using an app-in-progress Dokument, for examples.
More about Dokument later…
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