Create a TinyURL with PHP

//gets the data from a URL
function get_tiny_url($url)
{
      $ch = curl_init();
      $timeout = 5;  //Depend on you
      curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,'http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url='.$url);
      curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
      curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,$timeout);
      $newUr = curl_exec($ch);
      curl_close($ch);
      return $newUr;
}

//test it out!
$newUrl = get_tiny_url('http://anyurl.com');

//returns http://tinyurl.com/randomUrl
echo $newUrl