Social bookmarking buttons like Digg, Delicious or StumbleUpon on any website is very familiar. They help spreading the content.

Twitter, getting bigger & better, is also another powerful network where content can reach to thousands easily in minutes.

To help the readers of a website share/tweet a content at Twitter easily, here is a simple way of integration:

You can send a querystring to Twitter like:

http://twitter.com/home?status=Your Tweet. For example, a tweet link for this post can be:

http://twitter.com/home?status=How To Add Tweeting With Short URL Functionality To A Website (With PHP): http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/how-to-add-tweeting-with-short-url-functionality-to-a-website-with-php/

The problem & the solution:

There is a 140 character limit in Twitter & the length of the URL is a headache. So, auto-shortening the URL with a short URL service will be handy.

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Chevereto is an open source image hosting script that can be used to create such a service with ease.

With a very chic interface, the script offers uploading of both local & remote files. And you can choose to resize the image too.

Chevereto is integrated with TinyURL too & an user can optionally shorten the URL of the hosted image while uploading it.

The script also comes with the documentation which covers creating a bookmarklet or a Firefox extension & more.

It is built with PHP & requires no database to run.