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Revision: 11205
at January 28, 2009 07:23 by nerdsane
Initial Code 
//gets the data from a URL  
function get_isgd_url($url)  
{  
	//get content
	$ch = curl_init();  
	$timeout = 5;  
	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,'http://is.gd/api.php?longurl='.$url);  
	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);  
	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,$timeout);  
	$content = curl_exec($ch);  
	curl_close($ch);
	
	//return the data
	return $content;  
}

//uage
$new_url = get_isgd_url('http://davidwalsh.name/php-imdb-information-grabber');
Initial URL 
http://davidwalsh.name/isgd-url-php
Initial Description 
Is.Gd is a URL-shortening service much like TinyURL. Using PHP’s cURL library, you can create shortened URLs on the fly with ease. “is.gd” is much shorter than “tinyurl.com” so if you need the URL to be as short as possible, use this method. 
Create tinyurl.com urls : http://snipplr.com/view/11601/create-tinyurl/
Initial Title 
Create Is.Gd url
Initial Tags 
curl, url, php
Initial Language 
PHP