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Asked: 2026-05-19T03:23:25+00:00

Im trying to shorten a url using ggole api’s.Here is my php code .It

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Im trying to shorten a url using ggole api’s.Here is my php code .It gives a blank page when i load

<?php
    define('GOOGLE_API_KEY', 'GoogleApiKey');
    define('GOOGLE_ENDPOINT', 'https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1');

    function shortenUrl($longUrl)
    {
        // initialize the cURL connection
        $ch = curl_init(
            sprintf('%s/url?key=%s', GOOGLE_ENDPOINT, GOOGLE_API_KEY)
        );

        // tell cURL to return the data rather than outputting it
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

        // create the data to be encoded into JSON
        $requestData = array(
            'longUrl' => $longUrl
        );

        // change the request type to POST
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);

        // set the form content type for JSON data
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-type: application/json'));

        // set the post body to encoded JSON data
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($requestData));

        // perform the request
        $result = curl_exec($ch);
        curl_close($ch);

        // decode and return the JSON response
        return json_decode($result, true);
    }
    if (isset($_POST['url'])) {  
    $url = $_POST['url'];
    $response = shortenUrl('$url');

    echo sprintf(
        $response['longUrl'],
        $response['id']
     );
 }
?>

My html file:

<html>
<head>
<title>A BASIC HTML FORM</title>
</head>
<body>

<FORM NAME ="form1" METHOD =" " ACTION = "shortner.php">

<INPUT TYPE = "TEXT" VALUE ="Enter a url to shorten" name="url">
<INPUT TYPE = "Submit" Name = "Submit1" VALUE = "Shorten">

</FORM>
</body>
</html
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  1. Editorial Team

    I think it’s coming form your html. You didn’t put the form methode, so it send data by get.

    And you show something only if you have post.

    Try to do in the form method=”post”

    Edit

    Bobby the main problem is that you don’t have one problem but several in this code.
    First if you don’t do

    <FORM NAME="form1" METHOD="POST" ACTION="shortner.php">

    the if (isset($_POST['url'])) will never return true, because the variable send by the form will be GET (or do a if (isset($_GET['url']))).

    Secondly you call the function with { $response = shortenUrl('$url'); }. Here you’re not sending the url value but the string ‘$url’. So your variable $longUrl is always ‘$url’.

    Thirdly you don’t use sprintf like you should.

    echo sprintf(
        $response['longUrl'],
        $response['id']
     );

    Sprintf need to take a string format:

    echo sprintf("%s %s" // for example
    $response['longUrl'],
    $response['id']
 );

    But do you know that you can do directly

    echo $response['longUrl'] . ' ' . $response['id'];

    You can concatenate string directly with . in php

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