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Tamedo on 02/05/09


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auto create tinyurl

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  1. //gets the data from a URL  
  2. function get_tiny_url($url)  
  3. {  
  4. 	$ch = curl_init();  
  5. 	$timeout = 5;  
  6. 	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,'http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url='.$url);  
  7. 	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);  
  8. 	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,$timeout);  
  9. 	$data = curl_exec($ch);  
  10. 	curl_close($ch);  
  11. 	return $data;  
  12. }
  13.  
  14. //test it out!
  15. $new_url = get_tiny_url('http://davidwalsh.name/php-imdb-information-grabber');
  16.  
  17. //returns http://tinyurl.com/65gqpp
  18. echo $new_url

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Posted By: ginoplusio on December 29, 2009

If you have to decode those short urls, you can use the CURL lib in this way: http://snipplr.com/view/25668/php-tiny-url-encode-and-decode-functions/

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