public function new_shorten_url($long_url = "") { if (!empty($long_url)) { App::import("Model", "ShortUrl"); $model = new ShortUrl(); $long_url_array = $model->find('first', array('conditions' => array('ShortUrl.long_url' => $long_url))); if ($long_url_array && count($long_url_array) > 0) { //$this->set('SHORT_URL', $long_url_array['ShortUrl']['short_url']); return $long_url_array['ShortUrl']['short_url']; } $apiKey = '926968577661'; $postData = array('longUrl' => $long_url, 'key' => $apiKey); $jsonData = json_encode($postData); $curlObj = curl_init(); curl_setopt($curlObj, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url'); curl_setopt($curlObj, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($curlObj, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0); curl_setopt($curlObj, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_setopt($curlObj, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-type:application/json')); curl_setopt($curlObj, CURLOPT_POST, 1); curl_setopt($curlObj, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $jsonData); $response = curl_exec($curlObj); // Change the response json string to object $json = json_decode($response); curl_close($curlObj); if ($json->id) { $shortUrlArray = array(); $shortUrlArray['ShortUrl']['short_url'] = $json->id; $shortUrlArray['ShortUrl']['long_url'] = $long_url; $model->save($shortUrlArray); //$this->set('SHORT_URL', $json->id); return $json->id; } //$this->set('SHORT_URL', $long_url);*/ return $long_url; } return ''; }