Manmohanjit Singh

Recently I’ve been playing around with Twitter’s API, when I make a post a tweet will automatically be made on my Twitter account. I’ll get on that later. I like bit.ly, it provides short URLs in no time but its API isn’t the easiest to work with. So tinyurl.com has a long but easy to use API, I had no other choice to shorten my URLs with TinyURL, anyway something is better than nothing. Its actually pretty simple to shorten URLs with TinyURL.

Lets say we are creating a function, getTinyURL(). You can edit it to match your needs later.

function getTinyURL($url) {
	$tinyurl = file_get_contents("http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=".$url);
	return $tinyurl;
}

So you see, you just need to provide a URL, for a example: will return http://tinyurl.com/ylxlw6kr. The TinyURL provided is longer than my sites URL Anyway, it’ll work great for my posts which uses extremely long URLs.