Tiny URL API

//gets the data from a URL
function get_tiny_url($url)  {
    $ch = curl_init();
    $timeout = 5;
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,'http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url='.$url);
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,$timeout);
    $data = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    return $data;
}

//test it out!
$new_url = get_tiny_url('https://davidwalsh.name/create-tiny-url-php');

//returns http://tinyurl.com/65gqpp
echo $new_url