Comments on: Getting Twitter Tools to Shorten URLs http://www.northideas.com/wordpress_solutions/twitter-tools-shorten-urls/ David North's ideas on solving problems with technology Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:49:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David North http://www.northideas.com/wordpress_solutions/twitter-tools-shorten-urls/comment-page-1/#comment-39 David North Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:57:18 +0000 http://www.northideas.com/?p=506#comment-39 Here is the code copied from my function.php file. function makeShortURL($URLToConvert) { $shortURL= file_get_contents("http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=" . $URLToConvert); return $shortURL; } I don't see anything wrong with the line you showed. All I can think is to review the code around it. David Here is the code copied from my function.php file.

function makeShortURL($URLToConvert) {
$shortURL= file_get_contents(“http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=” . $URLToConvert);
return $shortURL;
}

I don’t see anything wrong with the line you showed. All I can think is to review the code around it.

David

]]> By: Josh Aronoff http://www.northideas.com/wordpress_solutions/twitter-tools-shorten-urls/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Josh Aronoff Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:08:07 +0000 http://www.northideas.com/?p=506#comment-38 Hey Dave, I tried your example. It didn't seem to work, I copied and pasted it like you said... it said I had a parse error on line 4, which is this line... $shortURL= file_get_contents(”http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=” . $URLToConvert); any suggestions? Hey Dave,
I tried your example. It didn’t seem to work, I copied and pasted it like you said… it said I had a parse error on line 4, which is this line…

$shortURL= file_get_contents(”http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=” . $URLToConvert);

any suggestions?

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