Miscellaneous Hacks - Shorten Bottom [Bit.ly]

Info :

A simple way to add a shorten bottom for your vBulletin ( bitly shorten url service )


Note:
Of course, you can use this code to any custom template or page ( like Blogs, Cms, Forums and etc )

Screenshots:








Installation:

1- Go to : Admincp>Phrase Manager>Add New Phrase:

Product = vBulletin
Phrase Type = GLOBAL
Varname: vbshorten
Text: Shorten
Save.


2- In the SHOWTHREAD template, Find:

<h1>

And below that, add this code:

<a href="javascript:(function(){%20window.open('http://bit.ly/?url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href));%20})();" rel="nofollow"  class="pagetitleinfo textcontrol" >{vb:rawphrase vbshorten}</a>

This is just an example for threads.
and this code works with any version of vBulletin.

All the best.

[Brandon Sheley]

wouldn't you want to place this outside the header tags?
maybe after the </h1> tag
I wouldn't want a bit.ly link in all my h1 tags

nice idea

[LOGECT]

Originally Posted by Brandon Sheley

wouldn't you want to place this outside the header tags?
maybe after the </h1> tag
I wouldn't want a bit.ly link in all my h1 tags

nice idea

Use this code for any place that you want, that was just an example for threads.

[Dr.osamA]

Excellent = 5 stars
installed

Note:
I think the reference to missing when adding a new phrase you should choose
Phrase Type = GLOBAL
Product = vBulletin

I chose to add the code to another place after you make changes to code
Become so as it is in the attached photo

my code is:

PHP Code:

<a href="javascript:(function(){%20window.open('http://bit.ly/?url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href));%20})();" rel="nofollow" class="newcontent_textcontrol">{vb:rawphrase vbshorten}</a> 

and i add it in SHOWTHREAD template .. if you need to do same
find

PHP Code:

    <div id="above_postlist" class="above_postlist">
        <vb:if condition="$show['largereplybutton']">
            <a href="newreply.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}p={vb:raw LASTPOSTID}&amp;noquote=1" 
class="newcontent_textcontrol" id="newreplylink_top"><vb:if condition="$show['closethread']"><span>+</span> {vb:rawphrase reply_to_thread}<vb:else />{vb:rawphrase closed_thread}</vb:if></a> 

then add code below that

[LOGECT]

Originally Posted by Dr.osamA

Excellent = 5 stars
installed

Note:
I think the reference to missing when adding a new phrase you should choose
Phrase Type = GLOBAL
Product = vBulletin

Thanks Dr.osamA, first post updated.

[Dr.osamA]

you are welcome bro

thank you for update

[Kingdombuilder]

This is an awesome mod thank you for your contribution. I have my own url shortener and i would like to use it instead of bit.ly. The shortener is http://www.bfx.me

I tried substituting the URL of bit.ly with bfx.me - it comes up but the url does not automatically go into the field provided. Can anyone help me to get this to work?


Edit:

Well i got it to work a little bit. I found this on the http://bfx.me site:

Shortening a URL with the bfx.me API is very simple, all you need to do is send a get request to the API passing through the URL you wish to shorten.

To shorten http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-7-piracy-check-update-goes-live request:

http://bfx.me/api.php?u=http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-7-piracy-check-update-goes-live

The API will return the shortened URL http://bfx.me/jZ2qi


To retrieve the original URL from the API, all you need to do is send a get request to the API passing through the shortened URL (or the last 5 characters).

To expand http://bfx.me/jZ2qi request:

http://bfx.me/api.php?r=http://bfx.me/jZ2qi
or http://bfx.me/api.php?r=jZ2qi

The API will return the original URL http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-7-piracy-check-update-goes-live

So I use this:

http://bfx.me/api.php?u

Instead of this:

http://bit.ly/?url

It will return the shortened url but will not function the site properly. What I mean by that is if you go to the bfx.me and shorten a url it eill return the shortened url and a barcode as well and will also alow you to tweet the url. From what I did it just comes up as a white screen with the shortened url in the upper left corner. The shortened url is right but I would like it to return to the bfx.me page where it will display the bardcode and the tweet option.

Any help would be appreciated...

[BlueCheri]

This can be very useful, tagged.

[indie2industry]

Can this be used for o-url.com ?

[datoneer]

Thanks. Installed and it works fine