<?php

				$myURL = 'http://www.dzone.com/links/index.html';
				$googleAPIKey = 'URAPIKey';

				$requestData = array('longUrl' => $myURL, 'key' => $googleAPIKey);
				$jsonDetails = json_encode($requestData);

				$curl = curl_init();

				curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-type:application/json'));
				curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $jsonDetails);
				curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url');
				curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
				curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);

				$responseData = curl_exec($curl);

				$jsonData = json_decode($responseData);

				curl_close($curl);

				echo 'Shortened URL is '.$jsonData->id;

			?>
		

			package com.techmaddy;

			import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
			import java.io.PrintWriter;
			import java.net.URL;
			import javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection;

			public class URLShortnerDemo {

				public static void main(String[] args) {
					System.out.println("The URL is "+getShortURL());
				} //End of main

				public static String getShortURL() {
					URL simpleURL = null;
					HttpsURLConnection url = null;
					BufferedInputStream bStream = null;
					StringBuffer resultString = new StringBuffer("");
					String inputString = "{\"longUrl\":\"" + "http://news.google.com.sg/news?cf=all&ned=in&hl=en&edchanged=1" + "\"}";
					try {
						simpleURL = new URL("https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url?key=yourAPIKey");
						url = (HttpsURLConnection)simpleURL.openConnection();
						url.setDoOutput(true);
						url.setRequestProperty("content-type", "application/json");
						PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(url.getOutputStream());
						pw.print(inputString);
						pw.close();
					}
					catch (Exception ex) {
					  return "Exception in Connecting to API";
					}

					  try {
						  bStream = new BufferedInputStream(url.getInputStream());
						  int i;
						  while ((i = bStream.read()) >= 0) {
							  resultString.append((char)i);
						  }
					  }
					  catch (Exception ex) {
							return "Exception in Reading Result";
					  }

					return resultString.toString();

				} //End of getShortURL

			} //End of URLShortnerDemo