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goo.gl URL shorten using Un-traditional API - v1

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  1. // pass the url you want to shorten in $url when calling the fucntion
  2. // second arugument return the qr code url of the shortened goo.gl url
  3. // getgool("http://www.thisisthelongurltoshorten.com", TRUE);
  4.  
  5. function getgoogl($url, $qr=NULL){
  6. 	if(function_exists('curl_init')){
  7. 		$ch = curl_init();
  8. 		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  9. 		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://goo.gl/api/shorten');
  10. 		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
  11. 		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'security_token=null&url='.urlencode($url));
  12.  
  13. 		$results = curl_exec($ch);
  14. 		$headerInfo = curl_getinfo($ch);
  15. 		curl_close($ch);
  16.  
  17. 		if ($headerInfo['http_code'] === 201){ // HTTP Code 201 = Created
  18. 			$results = json_decode($results);
  19. 			if(isset($results->short_url)){
  20. 				$qr = !is_null($qr)?'.qr':'';
  21. 				return $results->short_url.$qr;
  22. 			}
  23. 			return FALSE;
  24. 		}
  25. 		return FALSE;	
  26.  
  27. 	}
  28. 	trigger_error("cURL required to shorten URLs.", E_USER_WARNING); // Show the user a neat error.
  29. 	return FALSE;
  30. }

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