OK, this is going to be a post dedicated to the coders out there. As you know if you’ve been following my Twitter stream I need some help parsing the reply of the j.mp shorten API.

I need to do this in order to obtain only the shortUrl which in turn will be used as the link posted on Twitter via Twitter Tools when the post is published.

Te return of the API can be found here and is:

{ "errorCode": 0, "errorMessage": "", "results": { "http://cnn.com": { "hash": "31IqMl", "shortKeywordUrl": "", "shortUrl": "http://j.mp/15DlK", "userHash": "15DlK" } }, "statusCode": "OK" }

The code which I’ve tried to use to get to save only the value for shortUrl is:

function makeTrimURL($myURL) {
$trimQuery = 'http://api.j.mp/shorten?versionversion=2.0.1&longUrl='.$myURL.'&login=user&apiKey=apikey';
$trimJSON = json_decode(file_get_contents($trimQuery));
$trimURL = $trimJSON->{'errorCode'}-> 0 {'errorMessage'}->{'results'}->{$myURL}->{'shortUrl'};
return $trimURL;
}

Now, the problem is somewhere at line 4 because the link does indeed get shortened (I can see that in my j.mp account) and gets returned but I can’t use it because I can’t extract only the shortened URL. Now, if anyone can please give me a solution to my problem I’d greatly appreciate it.