Adfly URL Shortener PHP API

Now days, Adfly is one of the most popular url shortener service on the web. The best thing of this service is that you can earn money through this service and it is the main reason of it's popularity. Nowadays it is providing simple api to made this service more easy.

In this post you will show how we can make short url using Adfly api and PHP.

Step 1 - Get Your Adfly API Key & User ID

To use Adfly API at first you need to get your API key and your user id. If you are a Adfly member you can get these by following way..

Go to http://adf.ly/publisher/tools#tools-api

Here you will fond a link something like this..

http://api.adf.ly/api.php?key=7abccd03cc3005835dc61dd956b583ca&uid=111111&advert_type=int&domain=adf.ly&url=http://somewebsite.com

Here 7abccd03cc3005835dc61dd956b583ca is your API key and 111111 is your user id.

Step 2 - Adfly PHP Function

/**
 * Adfly Url Shortener PHP API
 * 
 * @param string $url http://www.google.com
 * @param string $key 7abccd03cc3005835cc61dd956b583ca
 * @param int $uid 1234
 * 
 * @param string $advert_type (optional) int || banner
 * @param string $domain (optional) adf.ly || q.gs
 */
function adfly($url, $key, $uid, $domain = 'adf.ly', $advert_type = 'int')
{
  // base api url
  $api = 'http://api.adf.ly/api.php?';

  // api queries
  $query = array(
    'key' => $key,
    'uid' => $uid,
    'advert_type' => $advert_type,
    'domain' => $domain,
    'url' => $url
  );

  // full api url with query string
  $api = $api . http_build_query($query);
  // get data
  if ($data = file_get_contents($api))
    return $data;
}

Usage:

// Your api key
$apiKey = '7abccd03cc3005835dc61dd956b583ca';
// Your user id
$uId = 111111;

echo adfly('http://w3bees.com', $apiKey, $uId);

Output:

http://adf.ly/Wtvpt