tinyurl usage in php

1//gets the data from a URL  
2function get_tiny_url($url)  {  
3	$ch = curl_init();  
4	$timeout = 5;  
5	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,'http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url='.$url);  
6	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);  
7	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,$timeout);  
8	$data = curl_exec($ch);  
9	curl_close($ch);  
10	return $data;  
11  
12  // instead of above code below can also be used.
13  // return file_get_contents('http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url='.$url);
14}
15
16//test it out!
17$new_url = get_tiny_url('https://davidwalsh.name/php-imdb-information-grabber');
18
19//returns http://tinyurl.com/65gqpp
20echo $new_url