Comments on: Create Digg URLs Using PHP

By: Hemant Arora

Hemant Arora — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:23:46 +0000

This script does not work anymore, can you please tell me how to post to digg using PHP. Thanks.

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:28:04 +0000

How would I get this to link from an image?

I have my own image, how would I get that image to link to the Auto-generated DIGG Url?

Thanks,
Keith.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:24:10 +0000

Very nice! For some reason I wasn’t getting any return HTTP request – and the reason was because I didn’t set the User Agent! Thanks for the tip!

By: Adriaan

Adriaan — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:44:57 +0000

Thanks, this is nice… I wonder how long tinyurl will last now that digg competes with them?

By: David Walsh

David Walsh — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:54:32 +0000

@Anthony Sterling: I like the regex because it prevents the overhead of bringing in XML parsing. In all honesty, not using a XML reader is probably safer.

By: Anthony Sterling

Anthony Sterling — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:43:28 +0000

Excellent David.

However, maybe this would be better suited to an object to bring those depended functions together. Additionally, it maybe best to avoid all those ini_set shenanigans and embrace the XML rather that RegEx’n it.

#Object
class ShortDiggURL
{
protected $sAppKey;

public function __construct($sAppKey)
{
$this->sAppKey = $sAppKey;
}

public function getShortURLFor($sLongURL)
{
$rContext = stream_context_create(
array(
‘http’ => array(
‘timeout’ => 15,
‘user_agent’ => ‘Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6′
)
)
);
$oResponse = @new SimpleXMLElement(
file_get_contents(
sprintf(
‘http://services.digg.com/url/short/create?type=xml&appkey=%s&url=%s’,
urlencode($this->sAppKey),
urlencode($sLongURL)
),
null,
$rContext
)
);
if($oResponse instanceof SimpleXMLElement)
{
return $oResponse->shorturl['short_url'];
}
return false;
}
}

#Usage
$oShortDiggURL = new ShortDiggURL(‘http://davidwalsh.name’);
echo $oShortDiggURL->getShortURLFor(‘http://davidwalsh.name/penetrated-diggnation’);
?>

By: David Walsh

David Walsh — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:27:24 +0000

Note: My attempts with cURL were unsuccessful but that was likely a hosting provider issue.