Need Help With PHP

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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.