Example of vamu's API usage for PHP

vamu.php

<?php
define('VAMU_API_CREATE',  'http://va.mu/api/create?url=%s');
define('VAMU_API_PREVIEW', 'http://va.mu/api/preview?url=%s');

function _consume_webservice($url) {
    $options = array(
        CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,     // return web page
        CURLOPT_HEADER         => false,    // don't return headers
        CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,     // follow redirects
        CURLOPT_ENCODING       => "",       // handle all encodings
        CURLOPT_USERAGENT      => "va.mu",  // who am i
        CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER    => true,     // set referer on redirect
        CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 120,      // timeout on connect
        CURLOPT_TIMEOUT        => 120,      // timeout on response
        CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS      => 10,       // stop after 10 redirects
    );

    $ch = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt_array($ch, $options);
    $response = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);

    return $response;
}

function vamu_create_url($url) {
    $ws_url = sprintf(VAMU_API_CREATE, urlencode($url));
    return _consume_webservice($ws_url);
}

function vamu_preview_url($url) {
    $ws_url = sprintf(VAMU_API_PREVIEW, urlencode($url));
    return _consume_webservice($ws_url);
}


echo "<pre>\n";
$shorturl = vamu_create_url('http://google.com.br');
echo $shorturl . "<br />\n";
$realurl = vamu_preview_url($shorturl);
echo $realurl . "<br />\n";
echo "</pre>\n";
?>