public static function shortenUrl($link)
{
$tinyUrlApiPrefix = 'http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=';
$shortLink = RemoteHelper::getRemote($tinyUrlApiPrefix . $link);
if (!$shortLink) {
$shortLink = $link;
}
return $shortLink;
}
/**
* Gets the response header from fb picture
* and returns the id for that image
* @param type $url
* @return type String
*/
public static function getFbPictureId($url)
{
$server_output = RemoteHelper::getRemote($url, true);
if (!$server_output) {
return 'xxxxxxxxxx';
}
//give me everything after the words location and before the new line
$pattern = "/Location:\\shttp:\\/\\/(.+)*/";
preg_match($pattern, $server_output, $matches);
// in case the file_get_contents on the above method
// does not follow redirects for any reason
// we can always use this as a curl method
$prefix = "http://";
$fullpath = $prefix . $matches[1];
$path_parts = explode("/", $fullpath);
$last_index = count($path_parts) - 1;
return $path_parts[$last_index];
}