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Hitting API internally using Curl_init()
//example demonstrate generating short url from full url
public function getShortUrl($long_Url)
{
$apiKey="AIzaSyByZhZ9RVU3v-ImcTcvAOVqYIEvPeQ4V5wff";
$data = array('longUrl' => $long_Url, 'key' => $apiKey);
$jsonData = json_encode($data);
$curlObj = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curlObj, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url?key='.$apiKey);
curl_setopt($curlObj, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curlObj, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($curlObj, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($curlObj, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-type:application/json'));
curl_setopt($curlObj, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($curlObj, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $jsonData);
$response = curl_exec($curlObj);
// Change the response json string to object
$json = json_decode($response);
curl_close($curlObj);
// echo 'Your Short URL is: '.$json->id;
return $json->id;
}
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