Question

URL file-access is disabled in the server – is the error I’m getting with Short URLs. I’m no PHP coder, so if you could post the code I should be using I would appreciate it! How do I rewrite the path?

In functions:

//////////////////////////////////////// Custom templates: page templates
add_filter('single_template', create_function('$t', 'foreach( (array) get_the_category() as $cat ) { if ( file_exists(TEMPLATEPATH . "/single-{$cat->term_id}.php") ) return TEMPLATEPATH . "/single-{$cat->term_id}.php"; } return $t;' ));

The call:

<?php $turl = getTinyUrl(get_permalink($post->ID));
echo 'Short URL <a href="'.$turl.'">'.$turl.'</a>' ?>

Answer 1

If PHP has cURL enabled you can add this function:

function getTinyUrl2($url) {
  $ch = curl_init();

  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); //Set curl to return the data instead of printing it to the browser.
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=".$url);

  $data = curl_exec($ch);
  curl_close($ch);

  return $data;
}

and then change your code to use the new function:

$turl = getTinyUrl2(get_permalink($post->ID));
echo 'Tiny Url for this post: <a href="'.$turl.'">'.$turl.'</a>'

Hope that helps