Bitly API Class

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<?php

	/*
	 * ----------------------
	 * bitly.class.php
	 * ----------------------
	 * 
	 * Bitly class used for calling all the different API functions provided by the Bitly API.
	 * 
	 * Author: Alex Saunders
	 * Email: alexs@navigatormm.com
	 * Date Created: December 19, 2011
	 * Date Updated: December 19, 2011
	 * Version: 1.0
	 * 
	 */	
	
	class Bitly {
		
		// Bitly Username
		private $username = 'YOUR_BITLY_USERNAME';
		
		// Bitly API Key
		private $apiKey = 'YOUR_API_KEY';
		
		// Bitly API URL
		private $api = 'http://api.bitly.com/v3/';
		
		// Nullary Constructor
		public function __construct() { }
		
		/**
		 * Create an API request of the given service with the paramaters provided.
		 * @param String $service The name of the API service you would like to call.
		 * @param String $params The paramaters the service depends on.
		 */
		public function request( $service, $params ) {
			// Begin constructing the request URL out of the service & login credentials.
			$request = $this->api . $service . '?login=' . $this->username . '&apiKey=' . $this->apiKey;
			
			// Go through the paramaters array, and add the key/value pair to the request.
			foreach( $params as $key => $value ) {
				$request .= '&' . $key . '=' . $value;
			}
			
			// Blast the request to curl_get and return the response.
			// curl_get returns an associative array from the json response the Bitly API returns.
			// So this function will return said associative array.
			return $this->curl_get( $request );
		}
		
		/**
		 * CURL to the Bitly API.
		 * @param String $url The URL to query the Bitly API with.
		 */
		private function curl_get( $url ) {
			// Initialize the curl session.
			$curl = curl_init();
			
			// Set Curl Options
			$options = array(
				CURLOPT_URL		=>	$url,
				CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER	=>	true,
				CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT	=>	10
			);
			
			// Set curl options
			curl_setopt_array( $curl, $options );
			
			// Execute the curl request.
			$response = curl_exec( $curl );
			
			// Close curl session.
			curl_close( $curl );
			
			// Return the CURL response.
			// Bitly returns JSON or XML. JSON By default.
			// Decoding the response is up to the user of the class.
			return $response;
		}
		
	}
	
?>