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Goo.gl helper - A goo.gl shortener - El Forum - 04-09-2010
[eluser]Isern Palaus[/eluser]
Goo.gl helper
I'm planning to release a e-Commerce system I coded in CodeIgniter in open-source so I've to familiarize with the public tools like Git/Bitbucket. I decided to create a profile and try with a simplest repository and here it's: codeigniter-googl-helper (with the name convention proposed by jamierumbelow).
You can grab the latest version in codeigniter-googl-helper at bitbucket or with a direct link to a zip file.
The usage is very simple: you need to load the helper and run the function googl_url().
Code:
$this->load->helper('googl');
$url = 'http://blog.ipalaus.es';
$short_url = googl_url($url);You can optionally pass a second boolean (TRUE/FALSE) parameter to return the original URL if something goes wrong. Default is TRUE (will return the long url):
Code:
$short_url = googl_url($url, FALSE);This is based in ggl-shortner by Matthew Flaschen.