Tinyurl API Example - Am i doing it right :D
- by Paul Weber
Hi ... we use super-long Hashes for the Registration of new Users in our Application. The Problem is that these Hashes break in some Email Clients - making the Links unusable.
I tried implementing the Tinyurl - API, with a simple Call, but i think it times out sometimes ... sometimes the mail does not reach the user.
I updated the Code, but now the URL is never converted. Is Tinyurl really so slow or am i doing something wrong? (I mean hey, 5 Seconds is much in this Times)
Can anybody recommend me a more reliable service?
All my Fault, forgot a false in the fopen. But i will leave this sample of code here, because i often see this sample, wich i think does not work very reliable:
return file_get_contents('http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url='.$u);
This is the - i think fully working sample. I would like to hear about Improvements.
static function gettinyurl( $url ) {
$context =
stream_context_create(
array(
'http' => array(
'timeout' => 5 // 5 Seconds should be enough
)
)
);
// get tiny url via api-create.php
$fp = fopen( 'http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url='.$url, 'r', $context); // open (read) api-create.php with long url as get parameter
if( $fp ) { // check if open was ok
$tinyurl = fgets( $fp ); // read response
if( $tinyurl && !empty($tinyurl) ) // check if response is ok
$url = $tinyurl; // set response as url
fclose( $fp ); // close connection
}
// return
return $url; // return (tiny) url
}
