6
Mar

Automatically provide TinyURL for your links

Ever wonder how some sites provide tiny web addresses for your links. Its easy as like eating ice cream.

Create a global public function

function getTinyUrl($url) {
$tinyurl = file_get_contents("http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=".$url);
return $tinyurl;
}

Usage example

$url = 'http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pace+solutions&btnG=Search';
$turl = getTinyUrl(get_permalink($url));
echo 'TinyURL for link is: <a href="'.$turl.'">'.$turl.'</a>';

Output:
TinyURL for link is: http://tinyurl.com/atqflt