URL shortening using PHP
to.ly and tinyurl.com are the most wanted URL shortening service providers. We can make urls short from their sites also we can use their services through PHP code.
PHP code to short URL using to.ly
function shortit($url)
{
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://to.ly/api.php?longurl=".urlencode($url));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
$shorturl = curl_exec ($curl);
curl_close ($curl);
return $shorturl;
}
$url = "http://phpxpert.com/";
echo shortit($url);
PHP code to short URL using tinyurl.com
function shortit($url)
{
$url = "http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=" . $url;
$shorturl = file_get_contents($url);
return $shorturl;
}
$url = "http://phpxpert.com/";
echo shortit($url);
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