Here’s how to use PHP CURL and the TinyURL api to generate tiny urls on the fly. This is a similar tutorial to the one I wrote a while back on using the Twitter API
I’ve set the variable $maketiny as the url that you want to shorten. This then gets passed into the function and processed with CURL. CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER returns the value of curl_exec($ch); as a string and doesn’t just display it on the screen allowing us to process the data further.
//the url you want to make tiny
$maketiny = 'http://www.papermashup.com';
function make_tiny($url)
{
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,'http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url='.$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $data;
}
$tinyurl = make_tiny(''.$maketiny.'');
php echo $tinyurl; ?>
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HI Ashley,
Could you do an example using web services? like the one at http://101.gs/apiexample.php. By the what happens if CURL is not enabled on the server?
NB
This is will be a good tool to use, if only if it will work as you explained it here, thank you.
Hi,
Can you give me an example for:
What if i need to make shorter multiple links at once ?
Hi,
I’m beginer with PHP cURL.
How to get cURL? or where I can download the source curl?
Pls reply to wsyakinah@gmail.com
Tks,
Syamsul
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