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at February 18, 2013 21:22 by apphp-snippets
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<?php
function getShortUrl($url){
return file_get_contents('http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url='.$url);
}
?>
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http://www.apphp.com/index.php?snippet=php-get-short-urls-for-twitter
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If you work with Twitter, you probably use a url shortener such as tinyurl.com or bit.ly to share/post your favorite blog posts or important messages with links on the network. This snippet take your url as a parameter and returns a short url.
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Get short urls for Twitter with PHP
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url, php
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PHP