New WordPress 3.0 API menu_page_url
Peter Westwood one of the lead developers of wordpress has introduced a new API method in wordpress 3.0 api which will help the plugin developers easily get the url of the plugin page.
Example of implementation:
add_options_page('Best Evar Menu', 'Best Evar Menu', 'manage_options', 'best_evar_menu', 'best_evar_options_page');
menu_page_url( 'best_evar_menu' );
The function will by default echo the url out but if you want you can get it returned for processing by setting the second argument to false.
Reference: WP Track #13829
PHP Class Create Short URL via TinyURL, Is.gd, Hex.io, Tr.im & Bit.ly API
Short URL is commonly used today for several reasons: avoid url garbling, take smallest space especially for long url which need to be posted at limited space format eg: twitter, also often used to manipulate user for specific purposes eg: hiding orginal url for phising and ads/affiliation links.
There are many websites that provide shortening url services, tinyurl, bit.ly, hex.io are some of them, below is simple PHP script as an implementation to use their API, create short url on the fly, currently support: tinyURL, bit.ly, is.gd, tr.im and hex.io, but you can easily add other providers.
Update Twitter using Classic ASP (VBScript)
Simple tutorial to update twitter status via twitter API and Classic ASP (VBScript) and directly shortenize url using TinyURL service, uses COM Object Microsoft XMLHTTP.
taste good anyway.
