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mrgee on 12/26/09


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Shorten URL with TinyURL

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  1. <?
  2. function ShortURL($ToConvert) {
  3. $short_url= file_get_contents('http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=' . $ToConvert);
  4. return $short_url;
  5. }
  6.  
  7. $newurl = ShortURL('http://freepublic.info'); // shorten this URL
  8. echo $newurl;
  9. ?>

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Posted By: ginoplusio on December 29, 2009

Nice function. I've made the decode function here: http://snipplr.com/view/25668/php-tiny-url-encode-and-decode-functions/

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