<?php
function getShortUrl($url){
    return file_get_contents('http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url='.$url);
}
?>

http://www.apphp.com/index.php?snippet=php-get-short-urls-for-twitter

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.

Get short urls for Twitter with PHP

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