Need Help With PHP

[canderson99]

Hi Everyone,

I am very new to PHP, and I need some help with a project I am working on. So basically what happens is the QR code is generated and a short URL is generated as well for the QR Code, and what I need is the short URL that is generated to be sent to my email address. Here is what the code looks like:

<?php

class Url_shortner_class {
    
    function shorten_url($criteria=array()) {
        $url = $criteria['url'];
        $type = $criteria['type']; //google
        
        if($type=='google') {
            return $this->shorten_url_with_google(array('url'=>$url));
        }
    }
    
    /*
    Google shortner service
    */
    function shorten_url_with_google($criteria=array()) {
        $url = $criteria['url'];
        
        $api_url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url';
        if($GLOBALS['google_api_key']!='') $api_url .= '?key='.$GLOBALS['google_api_key'];
        
        $result = getDataFromUrl($api_url, json_encode(array("longUrl"=>$url)), 'json');
        $result = json_decode($result,true);
        
        $data['longUrl'] = $url;
        $data['shortUrl'] = $result['id'];
        
        return $data;
    }
    
}

?>

All I need is to add a section that will send the URL to my email address, but I am unsure on how to write the code to do that. Thank you!

[NogDog]

You can use PHP's mail() function, or you could look into using something like PHPMailer to deal with a lot of the details.

[canderson99]

So if I were to use the mail function would it look like this?

$data['longUrl'] = $url; 
        $data['shortUrl'] = $result['id']; 

then add...

mail("somebody@example.com","My subject",$url); 

Thank you!

[NogDog]

Depending on your server config, you might have to add some additional mail headers in the 4th (optional) parameter.