URL shortening using PHP

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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);