PHP help needed!

I'm kind of in a pickle at the moment! I have a PHP script here which converts an inputted YouTube URL into an MP4, although after it's converted it into the MP4, I would like it to finally convert into a tinyurl. I've tried but I really don't understand how I could do so, so if anyone could lend a hand, then I'd definitely be grateful!

+rep to any help!

PHP Code:

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<?php
$youtube = $_GET['web'];
function getstring($string)
{
    $pos = strrpos($string, "swfArgs")+11;
     $texto = substr($string,$pos,strrpos(substr($string,$pos,strlen($string)), "additionalStatsHonorsUrl")-10);
        $replace = array(" ",'"',"_");
    $adata = split(",",str_replace($replace,"",$texto));
    $vid_id = split(":",$adata[2]);
    $lang = split(":",$adata[7]);
    $code = split(":",$adata[6]);
    $vidn1 = strrpos($string, "<title>")+7;
    $vidn2 = strrpos(substr($string,$vidn1,-1), "</title>");
    $vidname = substr($string,$vidn1,$vidn2);
    $web = 'http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id='.$vid_id[1].'&hl='.$lang[1].'&t='.$code[1].'&fmt=18';
    echo $web.'|'.$vidname;
} 
function getPage($opts) {
        $ch = curl_init($opts);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070508 Firefox/1.5.0.12");
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, 1);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5);
        $html = curl_exec($ch);
        if(curl_errno($ch)) {
            $html = "";
        }
        curl_close ($ch);
    return getstring($html);
}
getPage($youtube);
?>

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PHP Code:

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    $web = 'http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id='.$vid_id[1].'&hl='.$lang[1].'&t='.$code[1].'&fmt=18';
    echo $web.'|'.$vidname; 


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is the conversion that takes place, after this has happened, the tinyurl conversion needs to take place.

Google made this easy:

PHP Code:

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<?php
function createTinyUrl($strURL) {
    $tinyurl = file_get_contents("http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=".$strURL);
    return $tinyurl;
}
?>

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PHP Code:

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<?php
echo(createTinyUrl('http://www.richardcastera.com/2009/05/09/creating-a-tinyurl-with-tinyurl-api/'));
?>

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Quote:

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Originally Posted by Chippiewill

Google made this easy:

PHP Code:

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<?php
function createTinyUrl($strURL) {
    $tinyurl = file_get_contents("http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=".$strURL);
    return $tinyurl;
}
?>

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PHP Code:

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<?php
echo(createTinyUrl('http://www.richardcastera.com/2009/05/09/creating-a-tinyurl-with-tinyurl-api/'));
?>

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I've tried this already but if I honestly don't know how to make the URL convert to a tinyURL AFTER converting to the MP4.

Code:

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<?php
echo createTinyUrl(getPage($youtube));
?>

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Can I ask what you're using to convert the video once you've downloaded it? FFMPEG? Looked into making one of these scripts a while ago.

I really don't think he is converting it... I think he is just converting a standard URL / HTML into the MP4 download link for the given video... that's what I see in the code..

Ah yeah, for some reason I read MP4 as MP3. My mistake :P

Haha, no problem. I thought you were thinking converting from what.. FLV isn't it? to MP4?

You input a standard YouTube link and it gives you the MP4 link (FLV without &fmt=18).

Thanks for the help btw, +rep given! :)