README

PHP client library to access Bitly APIs. Register your account at Bitly.com and get your access token from here.

Requirements

This library has the following requirements:

• PHP 5.6.x or greater.

Installation

You can install this library into your application using composer.

composer require narendravaghela/bitly-client

Usage

Once you install this library, load it using the composer autoload option and use the BitlyClient class object. See below example,

<?php

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use Bitly\BitlyClient;

$bitlyClient = new BitlyClient('your-access-token');

$options = ['longUrl' => 'http://www.example.com/a-log-url-slug/'];

$response = $bitlyClient->shorten($options);

Response format

Bitly suppoerts json, xml and txt response types. You can specify the response type in your $options array. The default response format is json.

<?php

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use Bitly\BitlyClient;

$bitlyClient = new BitlyClient('your-access-token');

$options = [
    'longUrl' => 'http://www.example.com/a-log-url-slug/',
    'format' => 'xml' // pass json, xml or txt
];

$response = $bitlyClient->shorten($options);

We recommend to use json and xml formats only as txt response sometimes does not work.

Documentation

As of now, this library provides API methods for following modules.

• Links

Reporting Issues & Contributing

If you have a problem with this libray or any bug, please open an issue on GitHub. Also, if you have solution to any existing bug, create a Pull Request. This library follows PSR-2 standards, so please make sure you follow the same while making changes.