Bitly class

bit.ly allows users to shorten, share, and track links (URLs). Reducing the URL length makes sharing easier.

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PHP Bitly is a (wrapper)class to communicate with bit.ly.

License

Bitly is BSD licensed.

Documentation

The class is well documented inline. If you use a decent IDE you'll see that each method is documented with PHPDoc.

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Comments

Tijs Verkoyen wrote:
01/08/2009

Changelog since 1.0.0:
- corrected some documentation
- wrote some explanation for the method-parameters

waldo malqui silva wrote:
22/09/2009

ERROR : CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set

Solution:

if ( ini_get('open_basedir') == '' ) {
$options[CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION] = true;
}

Steve wrote:
24/09/2009

Hi

Great class, one question though. Should we be encoding URL's before passing into your shorten method as the bit.ly api requires encoded URL's?

If so it would be cleaner to do the encode within the method.

Steve wrote:
24/09/2009

Just looked at the code more closely and I see you do encode! My bad :)

gentax wrote:
30/09/2009

thanks guy!
that's a wonderful help!
great class

Bruce wrote:
18/10/2009

Great class. Just what I was looking for.
Thank you! :)

OrT wrote:
13/11/2009

Excellent work, and big thanks for the support

Tijs wrote:
02/12/2009

@Mike: just ran all my tests again and no errors.

Martin wrote:
13/02/2010

I wanÂ´t to set the publishToHistory to false.. But it wonÂ´t work. Could you please tell me, how I can stop it?

Tijs Verkoyen wrote:
16/02/2010

Changelog since 1.0.1
- each URL will be added into your history, removed the history parameter

gombile wrote:
27/02/2010

Thanks for your bitly api PHP class

Tom wrote:
27/03/2010

Hi,

Thanks for the class (although I can't use it yet)
Here's what I'm getting already with only the require_once line:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONST, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in bitly.php on line 37

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Tom

Tom wrote:
27/03/2010

Ok switched to php5, sorry about that :)

I still get these 2 errors though :

Warning: curl_setopt_array() [function.curl-setopt-array]: CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set in /include/bitly.php5 on line 144

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'BitlyException' with message 'Invalid JSON-response' in /include/bitly.php5:204 Stack trace: #0 /include/bitly.php5(316): Bitly->doCall('errors', NULL) #1 /test.php5(11): Bitly->errors() #2 {main} thrown in /include/bitly.php5 on line 204

Thanks

Resideo.com wrote:
21/06/2010

Thanks a bunch! Your class was extremely easy to implement

Tijs wrote:
15/09/2010

Changelog since 2.0.1
- added some new method to reflect the latest version of the API, new methods are: clicksByMinute, countries, info, lookup, referrers

Peter F. Aquart wrote:
20/09/2010

I'm getting similar issues to those above referring to the invalid json response. The curl call spits out a valid success response, and the long links are being added to my bit.ly account, but the data is not being passed out of doCall. Any thoughts?

Tijs Verkoyen wrote:
13/10/2010

@Peter F. Aquart: Just ran my tests again and can't find any errors. Which version of the class are you using?

Masterphreak wrote:
28/10/2010

I'm having the same problem as @Peter F Aquart. I'm using the latest version of the class, 2.0.1

When I run the script in my browser it just dumps the json response to the browser and quits.

Tijs Verkoyen wrote:
28/10/2010

@Masterphreak: can you email your code (emailaddress in the class)

Will Mason wrote:
04/12/2010

@Tijs: in your code you mention that only bit.ly and j.mp domains are allowed, custom domains will be handled by using the correct login. I don't understand this... I would like to use a custom domain I have with bit.ly. Thanks!