Drupal and Yourls

Actually, this should work with any CMS supporting PHP code blocks: Drupal, Joomla, WordPress (with a plug-in), phpBB, etc. Has been tested working with Drupal 6, Joomla 1.5.

You’ll want to replace YOUR-YOURLS-DOMAIN-HERE below with the actual YOURLS domain, and API-SIGNATURE-HERE with the API key found at your YOURLSDOMAIN/admin/tools.php.

<?php
if ( isset($_REQUEST['url']) ) {
$url = $_REQUEST['url'];
$keyword = isset( $_REQUEST['keyword'] ) ? $_REQUEST['keyword'] : '' ;
if ($keyword) { $keyword = '&amp;keyword='.$keyword; }
$return = file_get_contents('YOUR-YOURLS-DOMAIN-HERE/yourls-api.php?signature=API-SIGNATURE-HERE&amp;action=shorturl&amp;format=simple&amp;url='.urlencode($url).$keyword);
echo <<<RESULT
<h2>URL has been shortened</h2>
<p>Original URL: <code><a href="$url">$url</a></code></p>
<p>Short URL: <code><a href="$return">$return</a></code></p>
RESULT;
} else {
echo <<<HTML
<h2>Enter a new URL to shorten</h2>
<form method="post" action="">
<p><label>URL: <input type="text" name="url" value="http://" size="50" /></label></p>
<p><label>Optional custom keyword: <input type="text" name="keyword" size="5" /></label></p>
<p><input type="submit" value="Shorten" /></p>
</form>
HTML;
}
?>

The idea was based off this post, which I could never get to work for me. It always had a PHP error, and it depended on having Drupal and Yourls installed on the same site. The above code will work even if the installation is remote (on a different server). It only requires that you’re able to get an API key.

Feedback is welcome.

MikeBeach.org