Richard Knop's Zend Framework Blog » Short URIs http://blog.richardknop.com Zend Framework, PHP, MySQL, jQuery, JavaScript, AJAX, SEO, E-commerce and more Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:49:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Get a shortened URI with TinyURL API and cURL http://blog.richardknop.com/2009/06/get-a-shortened-uri-with-tinyurl-api-and-curl/ http://blog.richardknop.com/2009/06/get-a-shortened-uri-with-tinyurl-api-and-curl/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:55:39 +0000 Richard Knop http://blog.richardknop.com/?p=427 Many times in my application I need to create a shortened URI. There are many websites with free API that can do it for you: tinyurl.com, tr.im and others. Here’s how to do it with both TinyURL and tr.im:

TinyURL

  1. $uri = 'http://blog.richardknop.com/';
  2. $ch = curl_init();
  3. curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=' . $uri);
  4. curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
  5. curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  6. $tinyUri = curl_exec($ch);
  7. curl_close($ch);
  8.  
  9. // let's echo the tiny URI
  10. echo $tinyUri;

tr.im

  1. $uri = urlencode('http://blog.richardknop.com/');
  2. $ch = curl_init();
  3. curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://api.tr.im/api/trim_url.json?url=' . $uri);
  4. curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
  5. curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  6. $json = curl_exec($ch);
  7. $tinyUri = json_decode($json)->url;
  8. curl_close($ch);
  9.  
  10. // let's echo the tiny URI
  11. echo $tinyUri;
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