A few weeks ago, I tweeted that I was writing a PHP library for shortening/lengthening URLs using some of the common/popular services. I said it was going to be called Slinky, and that it’d support a bunch of different services. Well, it’s now available for download and I think it’s pretty cool, even if I do say so myself 
Please grab a copy, try it out and let me know what you think. It hasn’t actually been used for anything useful yet, so I’m also interested to hear what you’re using it for!
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Big thanks for implementing the cascade feature into it. That is exactly what I need due to frequent problems with bit.ly.
Excellent! You might want to play with setting the timeout (there's a
constant at the top of the file) a little lower if you want faster
performance during cascade, otherwise enjoy
Hi, thank you for your Script. I tried to build it in my Yourls-Script, but have some trouble:
a) you have some "unexpected : (colons) in your file on lines: 184, 189 and 194. Those need to be removed.
and b) (here starts my problem!) Now I got the following problem: Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in mypath/slinky.php on line 334. What can I do about this?
The line looks like: $ch = curl_init( $url );
Any advise would be great! Thanks
JamFX
Thanks for catching that – some bad copy and pasting!
As for the curl errors, you'll need the curl extension for PHP
installed and operational, as per the Requirements section of the
project page.