Automatically provide tinyurls for your WordPress posts
February 14, 2009 · Print This Article
If you want to reduce the size of urls, you can use tinyurls, but how to provide a tinyurl to your wordpress blog posts?
Simply open your functions.php file and paste the following code:
function getTinyUrl($url) {
$tinyurl = file_get_contents("http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=".$url);
return $tinyurl;
}
On your single.php file, paste the following within the loop:
<?php
$turl = getTinyUrl(get_permalink($post->ID));
echo 'Tiny Url for this post: <a href="'.$turl.'">'.$turl.'</a>'
?>
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.
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