Google has been offering their URL shortening service for some time now, but for those of you trying to follow along with the official documentation here: http://code.google.com/apis/urlshortener/v1/getting_started.html you’ll have noticed that it’s not quite working. Here’s how to get url shortening up and running
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<?php
$longUrl = 'http://facebook.com;
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://goo.gl/api/shorten');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'security_token=null&url='.$longUrl);
$content = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo json_encode($content);
?>
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If you’re getting any errors about curl not being enabled, simply pop open your php.ini file and look for this line: ;extension=php_curl.dll Then just delete the ‘;’ at the front. Don’t forget to restart your server for the new extension to come into effect.
