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this example shows how to get a short url using the service from is.gd

<?php /* Get a is.gd short url using PHP */ function isgd($url)  {      $ch = curl_init();      $timeout = 5;      curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,’http://is.gd/api.php?longurl=’.$url);      curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);      curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,$timeout);  [...]