Stuck Together With Tape » shortie http://www.stucktogetherwithtape.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:38:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Shortie v1.0 Released http://www.stucktogetherwithtape.com/blog/2009/10/shortie-v1-0-released/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=shortie-v1-0-released http://www.stucktogetherwithtape.com/blog/2009/10/shortie-v1-0-released/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:37:51 +0000 Jim http://www.stucktogetherwithtape.com/blog/?p=54 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:

  • 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…

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