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Create href.in short urls

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To use href.in API to generate a short URL. using php curl

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  1. //gets the data from a URL  
  2. function get_tiny_url($url)  
  3. {  
  4. 	$ch = curl_init();  
  5. 	$timeout = 5;  
  6. 	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,'http://href.in/api.php?create='.$url);  
  7. 	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);  
  8. 	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,$timeout);  
  9. 	$data = curl_exec($ch);  
  10. 	curl_close($ch);  
  11. 	return $data;  
  12. }
  13.  
  14. //test it out!
  15. $new_url = get_tiny_url('http://twitter.com/inerds');
  16.  
  17. //returns http://href.in/gh7uab
  18. echo $new_url

URL: http://href.in/api_example.php

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