Creating a URL shortner

Here is the actual code i have created using php its very simple and easy to use.

Here is the live Working url : http://shorturl-kartheekgj.rhcloud.com/


Please find the code at:   https://github.com/kartheekgj/shorturl

URL shortner using Bitly - PHP

For creating a shorten url you need to create an account in the following link:

http://dev.bitly.com/my_apps.html

Now go to 

https://bitly.com/a/oauth_apps 

Here you need to create a accesstoken if you are creating for the first time it prompts for the password.

Then you get a alpha numeric value as accesstoken section.


Now use the following Code:

    $url = "https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v3/shorten";
    $strPost = "longUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com%2F&   access_token=YOUR ACCESSTOKEN";
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    // curl_setopt($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($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, Array("Content-Type: application/json"));
    curl_setopt($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);

The output of this file will return a json string

{
    "status_code" : 200,
    "status_txt" : "OK",
    "data" : {
        "long_url" : "http:\/\/google.com\/",
        "url" : "http:\/\/bit.ly\/14UO8lv",
        "hash" : "14UO8lv",
        "global_hash" : "900913",
        "new_hash" : 1
    }
}


NOTE
The bitly code is to be used for personal accounts cannot be used for Enterprise use if you want to use it for Enterprise you need to request them for the details but this code even works for that Code too.

Get Url From Browser in Php

Getting the URL  from the parent window when you use a popup. This small Example code might help you to get the url from the parent window this can be used normal windows also

 if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']))
{
   
    $strPrevScheme = parse_url($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], PHP_URL_SCHEME);
 

    $strPrevHost = parse_url($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], PHP_URL_HOST);
 

    $strPrevPath = parse_url($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], PHP_URL_PATH);
 

    $strPrevURL = urlencode($strPrevScheme.'://'.$strPrevHost.$strPrevPath);
   
   
}

the parse_url(url) gives the following array 

Array
(
    [scheme] => http
    [host] => hostname
    [user] => username
    [pass] => password
    [path] => /path
    [query] => arg=value
    [fragment] => anchor
)

reference - http://in2.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-url.php