Shorturl formatter

Hi, I am not a programmer, but maybe one of you can built a formatter from this piece of code from An abstract of à solution On the twitter module?
http://drupal.org/files/issues/twitter-245453-1.patch

If so thanks a lot in advance!

Greetings, Martijn

Hi,
1) I patched shorturl to D7: http://drupal.org/node/1033046#comment-5400618
2) I enabled custom formatters on D7 17 okt. dev version
3) I added the instructions from http://drupal.org/node/608810#comment-2532040 for the link module custom formatter

return l($element['#item']['title'], shorturl_shorten($element['#item']['url']));

I needed to change this to:

return l('#instance']['settings']['title_value'], shorturl_shorten(['#items']['url']));

for not getting errors as: Notice: Undefined variable: element in eval() (line 1 van /httpdocs/sites/all/modules/custom_formatters/engines/php.inc(79) : eval()'d code).

What I want is that the static link field title is shown with the shorturl as link-url-field.

Now I do not get an error. But I also not see the formatter.
What do I do wrong please?

Attached the custom module I made as the method shown on: http://drupal.org/node/608810#comment-2532040

Can anyone help please to get this formatter working?

Hi, I see this issue where may be something can be learned to get it working: http://drupal.org/node/1110132#comment-4837998

EDIT: tried the following as formatter:

$linkshorturl = shorturl_shorten($variables['#items'][0]['url'], TRUE));
$output = '<a href="' . $linkshorturl .'">' .  $variables['#instance']['settings']['title_value'] . "</a>';
return $output;

$variables['#items'][0]['url'] because of this issue: http://drupal.org/node/1110132#comment-4588726

I am on travel now. Please help to get this fixed. Would be awesome to be able to use shorturl as custom formatter for a link-field!
Greetings, Martijn

Hi, I am still trying this, and I have some results.
1) I changed back the formatter to:

return l($variables['#object']->title, shorturl_shorten($variables['#items'][0]['url']));

2) I had to remove split() and replace it by explode() in shorturl.engine.inc

Now I see the title and as url the shorturl.
A) But clicking on this shorturl, I am not redirected to my long-url, which should be the action.
EDIT: Module short url (on homepage http://drupal.org/project/shorturl) says: http://example.com/sDf will redirect to the original long URL with HTTP 302 code
But I got the shorturl, but it is not redirected outside the site. the long url is an external url.

B) I would like to use the variable in attached image. How should I handle this instead of $variables['#object']->title?

Can somebody help with this please?
Greetings, Martijn

Hi Deciphered first a great 2012 to you!

1) See here where the variabel is:

#instance (Array, 13 elements)
   label (String, 10 characters ) ProductURL
   widget (Array, 5 elements)
   settings (Array, 8 elements)
        validate_url (Integer) 1
        url (Integer) 0
        title (String, 5 characters ) value
        title_value (String, 25 characters ) Boek de aanbieding vanaf   <== I want to output this variable

What should I put into the custom formatter?

Formatter itself works, only not with url variable /?= ..I think that is a shorturl problem.

Greetings, Martijn

Hi Deciphered, the output path worked, thanks!
Only problems now are with shorturl_shorten($variables['#items'][0]['url']));
1) the shorturl is allways the same
2) the redirect url doesn;t have the query string from the original url.

EDIT: Could these things be connected. Could it be that $variables['#items'][0]['url'] which is used for the shorturl_shorten already is the url without query string, and therefore (because all nodes have same http://wintersport.sunweb.nl/reizen/ peace of url) the shorturl is always the same.

The error is than that the query string is cut off likewise: http://drupal.org/node/1397700#comment-5443574

greetings, Martijn

Hi,
It was a link module problem, see this issue-patch http://drupal.org/node/1309658#comment-5168960
Thanks for your help with this issue!

greetings,
Martijn

Hi,
I have still one tiny thingy with the array of something. How should I get the variable in this line, like http://drupal.org/node/1379704#comment-5439796

#object (Object) stdClass
    field_prijs (Array, 1 element)
       und (Array, 1 element)
          0 (Array, 3 elements)
             amount (String, 5 characters ) 31000

I just can't get it right. I tried:

$variables['#object']['field_prijs']['und'][0]['amount']
$variables['#object']['field_prijs']['und'][0]->amount

But no success. Can you help me please?
EDIT: I found it!!

$variables['#object']->field_prijs['und'][0]['amount'] 

Thanks!
Greetings, Martijn

Thanks for your quick reply and explanation. I am not a programmer, many thanks for your help!
Greetings, Martijn