Google shorten URL - a Simple CURL script

$url = "https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url";     $strPost = '{"longUrl": "YOUR LONG URL"}';       $ch = curl_init();     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);     //if your are using proxy url use proxy setting     // curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, $proxy);     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPGET,1);     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, Array("Content-Type: application/json")); //since i am requesting json response     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, FALSE);     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $strPost); // add POST fields     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);     $result = curl_exec($ch);     var_dump($result);     curl_close($ch);     exit; If you dont want to use the google url shortner want to create your own check it here : http://opendummies.blogspot.in/2014/07/creating-url-shortner.html