• Stores new notifications added by the application
• Returns all unread notices added by the application

Pretty Simple. Added to that it will also remember notices between page redirects. So if you add a notice and then reach some code that triggers a redirect the notice will be displayed on the next page.

The library is now in its second incarnation. My original version supported three types of notices

1. Success (Well done, something that was meant to happen has happened)
2. Message (Nothings gone wrong, nothings gone right. Just wanted to say a little something)
3. Error (Oh shit, what did you do? Now i’m gonna have to tidy up after you again!)

Each message would be returned as separate elements with a relevant class representing the type. This was pretty sufficient for most applications but there were times when I wanted to add more attributes (classes, titles, ids) or just needed another ‘type’.

So the new version uses the magic php method __call to provide an unlimited number of ‘types’ via the method $oi->add_{type}($string);

e.g.
$this->oi->add_message('Well Done');

or

$this->oi->add_reallylongandimpressivesupertype('Hello');

More examples and documentation available in the code section

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:

• tr.im
• tinyurl
• is.gd
• u.nu

Check out the user guide, which was created using an app-in-progress Dokument, for examples.

More about Dokument later…