Google API - URL Shortener with PHP

Question

My code is below. The URL shortening service works, but it doesn\'t when I insert my $POST. Does anyone know how to fix this my looking at the code?

Answer 1

you are passing the php variable between the single quotes so it will not be parsed. pass it between double quotes like

$longUrl = "http://www.mysite.com/XXXXX/XX/$_POST['qrname']";

OR concatinate like this

$longUrl = 'http://www.mysite.com/XXXXX/XX/'.$_POST['qrname'];

Answer 2

Try as below

$longUrl = 'http://www.mysite.com/XXXXX/XX/'.$_POST['qrname'];

The above will work.

Answer 3

replace $longUrl = 'http://www.example.com/XXXXX/XX/$_POST['qrname']';

with the following

$longUrl = 'http://www.example.com/XXXXX/XX/{$_POST['qrname']}';

Answer 4

Don't have enough reputation points yet to comment, but I got this working fine by replacing the line:

echo 'Shortened URL is: '.$json->id;

with:

$shortLink = get_object_vars($json);
echo "Shortened URL is: ".$shortLink['id'];

It could be just my php installation, but the original line kept throwing a 500 Internal Error for me.

Answer 5

<?php 
//URL Shortening Functions( Just copy & paste below code in your application)
function short_url($longUrl){
        $apiKey = '******************'; // put your GOOGLE API SHORTENING KEY 
        $postData = array('longUrl' => $longUrl, 'key' => $apiKey);
        $curlObj = curl_init();
        $jsonData = json_encode($postData);
        curl_setopt($curlObj, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url?key='.$postData['key']);
        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);
        $json = json_decode($response);
        curl_close($curlObj);
        if(isset($json->error) || $json == null){
             return $longUrl; // retrun same url in case of error or null response
        }else{
            return $json->id; // return shorted url
        }
    }
// use this function here
$longUrl = 'https://www.w3schools.com/';
echo short_url($longUrl); // print short url

// If you want to return short url to long url use below function
function long_url($shortUrl){
        $apiKey = '***********'; // put your GOOGLE API SHORTENING Key
        $params = array('shortUrl' => $shortUrl, 'key' => $apiKey,'projection' => "ANALYTICS_CLICKS");
        $final_url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url?'.http_build_query($params);
        $curlObj = curl_init($final_url);
        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'));
        $response = curl_exec($curlObj);
        $json = json_decode($response);
        curl_close($curlObj);
        if(isset($json->error) || $json == null){
            return $shortUrl;
        }else{
            return $json->longUrl;
        }
    }
//Function Use here
echo "<br>"; // For next line
$shortUrl = ''; // put the short url generated from above function
echo long_url($shortUrl); // get long url
?>

Answer 6

$longUrl = "http://www.xxxxxxx.com";
    $postData = array('longUrl' => $longUrl);
    $jsonData = json_encode($postData);

    //4
    $curlObj = curl_init(); 
    curl_setopt($curlObj, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url?key=yourappkey');
    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);

    //5
    $response = curl_exec($curlObj);

    $json = json_decode($response);
//       echo "<pre>";
//    print_r($json);exit;
    //6
    curl_close($curlObj);

    //7
    if(isset($json->error)){
        echo $json->error->message;
    }else{
        echo $json->id;
    }