Earlier this week, we covered the release of the Google URL Shortener API.
Because it’s a relatively simple API that provides a great way to get comfortable with technologies and third-party services, it’s a great API to explore when getting started with these languages.
In this two part series, we’ll create a demo application that uses the Google URL Shortener API to write our own URL shortener.
Before getting started, make sure that you have a local LAMP environment setup…
The series use HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, and PHP. You don’t have to be an expert in any of these languages, but a high-level knowledge of each is helpful.
If you’re comfortable working with each language, you should be fine.
- Getting Started with the Google URL Shortener API will cover everything that you need to do in order get started building the application. In this post, we’ll also be building the user interface.
- In Writing Your Own URL Shortener, we’ll build the basic functionality of the application so that we shorten longer URLs and expand shortened URLs.
Alright, make sure you have the required environment setup before we get started.
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