[ How to post a Bitlink shortened URL to input value ]
Below is the PHP code I'm using for shortening long URLs via Bitly API:
<?php
$bitly_access_token = 'my_api_key';
$deeplink = 'http://example.com/';
$curl = curl_init('https://api-ssl.bit.ly/v3/shorten?access_token='.$bitly_access_token.'&longUrl='.urlencode($deeplink));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
$return = json_decode(curl_exec($curl), true);
curl_close($curl);
print_r($return);
?>
A sample output of the above code:
Array ( [status_code] => 200 [status_txt] => OK [data] => Array ( [long_url] => http://example.com [url] => http://bit.ly/xxxxx [hash] => xxxxx [global_hash] => zzzzz [new_hash] => 0 ) )
It works and output the shortened url as: http://bit.ly/xxxxx
(Sample).
But, with a little experience in PHP, I can't figure out how to post that shortened URL into an input value. I tried <input type="text" value="<?php echo $return ?>" />
but that didn't work.
Also, I have problem with this long output, why it isn't displaying the shortened URL only?
Thank you.
Answer 1
maybe this :
<input type="text" value="<?php echo $return['data']['url'] ?>" />