YOURLS API Call.php

<?php
$username = 'namehere';
$password = 'passhere';
$url = '<$mt:EntryPermalink$>'; // This would be for Movable Type
$format = 'simple';
$api_url = 'http://domain.com/yourls-api.php';
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $api_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); // No header in the result
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); // Return, do not echo result
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); // This is a POST request
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array( // Data to POST
		'url'      => $url,
		'format'   => $format,
		'action'   => 'shorturl',
		'username' => $username,
		'password' => $password
	));
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $data;
?>