Tiny URL using PHP for auto-twitts

I'm trying to implement auto post on Twitter using PHP.

But because of twitt's character limit I wanted to know how can I use tinyURL, instead of placing the full link, like http://www.appdropp.com/ios/stone-age-the-board-game/564247778

You see it's quite long...

I know services like:

• tinyurl.com
• goo.gl

But how can I use these services in bulk, to generate hundreds of links every day with PHP?

You can check Google API, but I'm not sure about that much bulk. I can suggest 3 solutions for you:

1. Create short links on your host using PHP.
2. Twitter will shorten the URL for you if you tweet DIRECTLY. But, you cannot do it using auto-posting. So, count characters (like message + URL <= 140) and keep your automatic tweets length less than 140 characters.

3. You can also try this (Check the PHP Source Code Example)

   function CompressURL($url) {
      $ch = curl_init();
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://"."to.ly/api.php?longurl=".urlencode($url));
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
   
      $shorturl = curl_exec ($ch);
      curl_close ($ch);
   
      return $shorturl;
   }
   echo CompressURL("http://twitter.com"); // Test