Mark me down for a yes on the bit.ly integration. I am about to google it and if no solution is available, guess we will just have to hack-n-roll our own, eh? I’ll post my progress.
Found a solution (in less than the time it took to write that last post—doh!) Check out the end result here: http://www.website-marketing.ch/ and how it’s done here: http://webexpedition18.com/articles/how-to-sociable-wp-plugin-with-auto-tinyurl-or-bitly-shortening/
Cheers!
I posted a fix on that webexpedition post linked above, but it seems that Nikola aka Colaja from Nis, Serbia removed it. Very well, I will post it here.
The issue I faced when using Coloja’s hack was that it generated a shortened url (bit.ly in my case) during the page loop. So, on the main page, where we are showing the latest 10 posts… the loop hit the bit.ly API, get a shortened URL 10 times, adding about 11 seconds to the load time of homepage–not very efficient. What I opted for was to pass permalink to a custom bit2twitt.php file that would bit.ly-ize the link only after the user clicked on it, then redirect to twitter, passing the shorted url.
To sum up what you need to do:
1. Open sociable.php and find the following block:
'Twitter' => Array(
'favicon' => 'twitter.png',
'awesm_channel' => 'twitter',
'url' => 'http://twitter.com/home?status=PERMALINK',
),
and change it to:
'Twitter' => Array(
'favicon' => 'twitter.png',
'awesm_channel' => 'twitter',
'url' => 'bit2twit.php?url=PERMALINK',
),
2. create a new file called bit2twit.php with the following code:
<?php
$url = $_GET['url'];
// Ondemand function to generate dynamic bit.ly urls
function getBitlyUrl($url) {
// fill up this 2 lines below with your login and api key
$bitlylogin = '<your bit.ly login goes here>';
$bitlyapikey= '<your bit.ly api key goes here>';
// you dont need to change below this line
$bitlyurl = file_get_contents('http://api.bit.ly/shorten?version=2.0.1&longUrl='.$url.'&login='.$bitlylogin.'&apiKey='.$bitlyapikey);
$bitlycontent = json_decode($bitlyurl,true);
$bitlyerror = $bitlycontent["errorCode"];
if ($bitlyerror == 0){
$bitlyurl = $bitlycontent["results"][$url]["shortUrl"];
}
else $bitlyurl = $url;
return $bitlyurl;
}
header('Location: http://twitter.com/home?status='.getBitlyUrl($url));
?>
3. place the bit2twit.php file you just created in your wordpress root and you are golden.
I’m sorry, but… wouldn’t this hack be wiped out by future updates to Sociable?
I wrote a patch to support bit.ly with every service (not only twitter) : http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/379015?replies=1
I got the following error (I’ve hidden part of username and api):
Warning: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/victorar/public_html/bit2twit.php on line 10
Warning: file_get_contents(http://api.bit.ly/shorten?version=2.0.1&longUrl=http://www.victoraroestad.com/network-marketing/realtionship-marketing/the-ultimate-secrets-to-relationship-marketing/?&login=v*********&apiKey=R_9db*********1ce3f3ca57b) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /home/victorar/public_html/bit2twit.php on line 10
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/victorar/public_html/bit2twit.php:10) in /home/victorar/public_html/bit2twit.php on line 24
What am I doing wrong here?
Thanks for any help.
This was my take on this:
bit.ly shortening
~Josh
victoraroestad> You server doesn’t allow file_get_content to get the content of external url. You try to use HTTP or curl or configure your server (if you have access to it).
Hello,
i have the same problem of file_get_content … but short url work with other plugin… Have you an idea ?
Kevin
you can host and customize short urls on your own site using the su.pr plugin by StumbleUpon, apparently. I’m having a hard time understanding how to configure it, but it’s free if anyone wants to give it a go.
