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Created June 26, 2012 19:50
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url Shortner function
<?php
// By Virendra Rajput
// June 27, 2012
function shortner($url) {
$longUrl = $url; // url to be shortned
$apiKey = ''; // Get API key from : http://code.google.com/apis/console/
$postData = array('longUrl' => $longUrl, 'key' => $apiKey);
$jsonData = json_encode($postData);
$curlObj = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curlObj, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url');
curl_setopt($curlObj, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curlObj, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($curlObj, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($curlObj, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-type:application/json'));
curl_setopt($curlObj, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($curlObj, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $jsonData);
$response = curl_exec($curlObj);
//change the response json string to object
$json = json_decode($response);
curl_close($curlObj);
return $json->id; // return the shortened url
}
?>
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