// This is the URL you want to shorten $longUrl = 'http://www.mysite.com/';
// Get API key from : http://code.google.com/apis/console/ $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($curlObj);
echo 'Shortened URL is: '.$json->id;
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