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using urlB.org API from PHP

February 13th, 2008

If you are interested to use the urlB.org API from within PHP, here is a simple wrapper.

First download urlborg.php (and, of course, make sure you have your API key).

Now, creating short URLs and getting info about them is easy. Here is an example:

require_once 'urlborg.php' ;
$ub = new urlBorg('use your API key here') ;
$info = $ub->get_info('lgfy') ;
if ($ub->get_error()) {
   echo 'ERROR! Code:' . $ub->get_error('n') .
   ' desc:' . $ub->get_error('s') ;
} else {
   print_r($info) ;
}
$short = $ub->create_new('http://vrypan.net/') ;
if ($ub->get_error()) {
    echo 'ERROR! Code:' . $ub->get_error('n') .
    ' desc:' . $ub->get_error('s') ;
} else {
    print_r($short) ;
}

(the example is included in the class headers. Don’t copy-paste it from this post since Wordpress seems to change the quotes in ways that PHP doesn’t like :-)

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  1. February 13th, 2008 at 20:18 | #1

    Thank you, vrypan!
    Very useful

  2. February 14th, 2008 at 04:02 | #2

    You have an error in the 3rd line:
    $info = $u->get_info(’lgfy’) ;
    must be:
    $info = $ub->get_info(’lgfy’) ;
    also check this out:
    http://linkbunch.com/
    feel free to delete this comment.

  3. February 14th, 2008 at 09:31 | #3

    @leo: fixed. Thanks!

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