URL Shortening, for the Faint of Heart 0

Posted In Miscellaneous By John Hass

Hello, Hello, Hello. Quick tut on bit.ly in PHP, nothing more nothing less (and yes I said PHP not Perl like I am so fond of). In order to use this code you need a bit.ly account. Visit http://bit.ly/account/register?rd=/ to get a login and a API Key.

Here is the function:

<?php
function shortenURL($url) {
$login = "yourlogin";
$apikey = "your api key";
 
$newurl = file_get_contents("http://api.bit.ly/shorten?version=2.0.1&longUrl=".$url."&login=".$login."&apiKey=".$apikey);
$content = json_decode($newurl,true);
$error = $content["errorCode"];
if ($error == 0){
$newurl = $content["results"][$url]["shortUrl"];
}else {
$newurl = 0;
}
 
return $newurl;
}
?>