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PHP Short URL goo.gl API: Create short URLs and expand them using Google API

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googleurlapi 1.0.0MIT/X Consortium ...5HTTP, PHP 5, Web services
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Kevinralph M Tenorio

This class can create short URLs and expand them using Google API.

It takes a given URL and sends a HTTP request to the Goo.gl Web server API to request a short version of the URL that is returned by the class as a string.

The class can also send a request the API to expand shorten a URL that was created previously.

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Example

<?php

    /**
     * @param string $longUrl
     * @param string|null $api
     *
     * @return string|bool
     */
    function googl_url($longUrl, $api = null)
    {
        $api = $api ?? 'MY_GOOGLE_URL_SHORTER_API_KEY';
        $instance = new GoogleURLAPI($api);

        if ($response = $instance->shorten($longUrl)) {
            return isset($response['id']) ? $response['id'] : $longUrl;
        }
    }

    $shorten = googl_url('https://my.domain.com/some-very-long-url/?url=is_very_long');

    // Other Example Usage:

    $googlurl = new GoogleURLAPI('MY_GOOGLE_URL_SHORTER_API_KEY');
    $short = $googlurl->shorten('https://mylongdomain.com/long-url');
    $long = $googlurl->expand($short['id']);
    var_dump([$short, $long]);



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