Comments on: Create Short URLs Using U.Nu http://davidwalsh.name/create-short-urls-unu Legendary scribbles about JavaScript, HTML5, AJAX, PHP, CSS, and ∞. Tue, 22 May 2012 05:31:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Mahmud Ahsanhttp://davidwalsh.name/create-short-urls-unu#comment-9166 Mahmud Ahsan Fri, 08 May 2009 19:36:13 +0000 http://davidwalsh.name/?p=2218#comment-9166 awesome post. awesome post.

]]> By: Drew Douglasshttp://davidwalsh.name/create-short-urls-unu#comment-8972 Drew Douglass Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:56:26 +0000 http://davidwalsh.name/?p=2218#comment-8972 Thanks for the link David, that is very helpful. Thanks for the link David, that is very helpful.

]]> By: David Walshhttp://davidwalsh.name/create-short-urls-unu#comment-8900 David Walsh Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:38:55 +0000 http://davidwalsh.name/?p=2218#comment-8900 <p>@Drew Douglass: You can definitely use file_get_contents(). cURL is simply PHP best practice. Here's a good resource:</p><p>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/555523/filegetcontents-vs-curl-what-has-better-performance</p> @Drew Douglass: You can definitely use file_get_contents(). cURL is simply PHP best practice. Here’s a good resource:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/555523/filegetcontents-vs-curl-what-has-better-performance

]]> By: Drew Douglasshttp://davidwalsh.name/create-short-urls-unu#comment-8892 Drew Douglass Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:19:42 +0000 http://davidwalsh.name/?p=2218#comment-8892 Hey David,Nice work here, I had never heard of that particular url service, thanks for that. I was going to ask though, couldn't you shorten it down to something like this?<code> function get_unu_url($url) { $url = file_get_contents('http://u.nu/unu-api-simple?url='.urlencode($url)); return $url; } echo get_unu_url('http://davidwalsh.name'); ?> </code>Or was the reason because file_get_contents may not be available to everyone? I ask simply out of curiosity :)Thanks again! Hey David,

Nice work here, I had never heard of that particular url service, thanks for that. I was going to ask though, couldn’t you shorten it down to something like this?


function get_unu_url($url)
{
$url = file_get_contents('http://u.nu/unu-api-simple?url='.urlencode($url));
return $url;
}
echo get_unu_url('http://davidwalsh.name');
?>

Or was the reason because file_get_contents may not be available to everyone? I ask simply out of curiosity :)

Thanks again!

]]> By: Ceriumhttp://davidwalsh.name/create-short-urls-unu#comment-8885 Cerium Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:32:49 +0000 http://davidwalsh.name/?p=2218#comment-8885 @Alex : thanks, it seems to be specific to dot nu :) @Alex : thanks, it seems to be specific to dot nu :)

]]> By: David Walshhttp://davidwalsh.name/create-short-urls-unu#comment-8884 David Walsh Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:00:08 +0000 http://davidwalsh.name/?p=2218#comment-8884 <p>Thank you for reporting that Guillermo! Updated.</p> Thank you for reporting that Guillermo! Updated.

]]> By: Guillermo Rauchhttp://davidwalsh.name/create-short-urls-unu#comment-8883 Guillermo Rauch Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:55:13 +0000 http://davidwalsh.name/?p=2218#comment-8883 Wow! It seems the create API adds additional whitespace / carriage return though. Might want to additionally trim() the result. I integrated it into <a href="http://devthought.com/projects/php/phpshortener/" rel="nofollow">PHPShortener</a> Wow! It seems the create API adds additional whitespace / carriage return though. Might want to additionally trim() the result.
I integrated it into PHPShortener

]]> By: Alexhttp://davidwalsh.name/create-short-urls-unu#comment-8882 Alex Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:33:24 +0000 http://davidwalsh.name/?p=2218#comment-8882 "Domain names can be as short as one character. A premium of €500/yr applies to name registrations of one character in length, €250 for domain names of two-character length, and €30 per year for domain names of any other length. In June, 2008, .NU Domain began permitting registration of all-numeric domain names."from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.nuUnfortunately all one character domains are already bought :( “Domain names can be as short as one character. A premium of €500/yr applies to name registrations of one character in length, €250 for domain names of two-character length, and €30 per year for domain names of any other length. In June, 2008, .NU Domain began permitting registration of all-numeric domain names.”

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.nu

Unfortunately all one character domains are already bought :(

]]> By: Mark Sanbornhttp://davidwalsh.name/create-short-urls-unu#comment-8881 Mark Sanborn Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:24:18 +0000 http://davidwalsh.name/?p=2218#comment-8881 Now if only they had analytics tracking... Now if only they had analytics tracking…

]]> By: Ceriumhttp://davidwalsh.name/create-short-urls-unu#comment-8880 Cerium Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:49:06 +0000 http://davidwalsh.name/?p=2218#comment-8880 Nice snippet <strong>David</strong> ! Thanks.But it's strange, a domain name can have just one letter, "u" in this case ? I always think the minimum was two. Nice snippet David ! Thanks.

But it’s strange, a domain name can have just one letter, “u” in this case ? I always think the minimum was two.

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