Functionality for shorten URL (server-side)

[weboverhauls]

When complete, need to ask Jared to update http://weba.im/ with URL format to send shorten link from that app to EC2.

[andrewwoods]

tried to get an app key from webaim, but jared said you already one. yet i cant find it. do you know?

[weboverhauls]

The key is "a11y". From EC1:

$req = "http://weba.im/api.php?action=shorturl&url=".urlencode($_GET["url"])."&format=json&key=a11y";

[weboverhauls]

Andrew, I see you've done a lot of work on this. What's the status?

[andrewwoods]

It works for webaim - shortening and expanding. The URL you'll use is http://easychirp.local/url_shorten/webaim You'll set 2 params via POST - url and ajax. http://easychirp.local/url_expand/webaim works the same but uses a shortened URL as the url parameter

[weboverhauls]

I was hoping you'd finish the server-side trip by now. Shouldn't the service be a post parameter (like the form)? How is a URL submitted to bitly?

We need to finish this ASAP.

[andrewwoods]

I'll be working on this today. Shouldn't take too long

[andrewwoods]

This is done - ready for testing.

[weboverhauls]

Sorry man, I have 2 problems.

1. Need to make the shortener service a post param so user can choose btwn webaim and bitly. I started but had error. I think I'm breaking the url_shortener service. Ideas?

    public function url_shorten()
    {
        $type = $this->input->post('urlService');

        $this->load->library('url_shortener');

1. Bitly wasn't working for me which is why I did webaim first. I entered my password in url_shortener but didn't work. Then I registered another and didn't work. I looked in original Easy Chirp, and the params were different; was only using username and key to authenticate. Did you test this locally?

[andrewwoods]

1. that solution looks fine, but you'll need to update the routes from url_shorten/(:any) to url_shorten
2. I did test locally. For bitly, i didn't have the accessibletwitter password (the one you use to login to bitly) so i used my personal account details. Before committing i changed the credentials back to accessibletwitter. so you'll need specify the correct values. the values needed to be hard coded into the Bitly class. The bitly api has changed since you developed the original easychirp - particularly the authentication.

[weboverhauls]

I created a bitly account and added my credentials. Still doesn't work. I don't get it. Can you please give it a spin? I couldn't find a client_secret but an api key. Feel free to user my user/pw to log in on browser if you need to. [5ecdb62]

[andrewwoods]

It's frustrating that Bitly was working yesterday but not today with the same code. I'm actively working on this.

[weboverhauls]

Sweet!!!