Google URL Shortener

google-url-shortener.php

<?php
 
function short_url($longUrl) {
 
	$apiKey = 'MyAPIKey';
 
	$postData = array('longUrl' => $longUrl, 'key' => $apiKey);
	$jsonData = json_encode($postData);
 
	$curlObj = curl_init();
 
	curl_setopt($curlObj, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url');
	curl_setopt($curlObj, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	curl_setopt($curlObj, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
	curl_setopt($curlObj, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
	curl_setopt($curlObj, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-type:application/json'));
	curl_setopt($curlObj, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
	curl_setopt($curlObj, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $jsonData);
 
	$response = curl_exec($curlObj);
 
	// Change the response json string to object
	$json = json_decode($response);
 
	curl_close($curlObj);
 
	return $json->id;
}