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Create Is.Gd url

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Is.Gd is a URL-shortening service much like TinyURL. Using PHPâ€™s cURL library, you can create shortened URLs on the fly with ease. â€œis.gdâ€ is much shorter than â€œtinyurl.comâ€ so if you need the URL to be as short as possible, use this method.
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//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');