Unlike bit.ly, tinyurl, or any of the other 50 services, su.pr is the first URL shortener to also syndicate content. I’m a bit late in posting about this but they did a terrific job on their URL shortener. The catch here is that it also syndicates in StumbleUpon (SU) which is absolutely kick ass. You know what that means? More traffic, a content-rich SU blog, and more links into the Internet.

This handy snippet of code will take the $url variable and churn it through the system to generate your new $SU_newURL.

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// Set username and password
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$SU_username = "username";
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$SU_api = "34827348732fakekey";
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// The SUPR API address
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$SU_url = "http://su.pr/api";
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// URL to Shorten
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$SU_shortUrl="$url";
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// Combine URL
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$SU_vars = "?url=$SU_shortUrl&login=$SU_username&apiKey=$SU_api";
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// Set up and execute the curl process
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$curl_handle = curl_init();
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curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, $SU_url . $SU_vars);
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curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2);
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curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
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curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, 1); 
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$buffer = curl_exec($curl_handle);
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curl_close($curl_handle);
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/*
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// check for success or failure
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if (empty($buffer)) {
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    echo 'message';
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} else {
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    echo $buffer;
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}
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*/
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//$SU_newURL = str_replace("su.pr/", "", $buffer);
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echo $SU_newURL;
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This part here is optional:

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$SU_newURL = str_replace("su.pr/", "", $buffer);
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When you use the "sync" or host the shortened URL on your own domain through the su.pr .htaccess mods, it returns the hash and link as http://su.pr/domain.com/hash_key

That can kind of mess things up. All the optional code does is extra the su.pr out.