PHP - Url Shortening

Hi,

Right I have a button which links to a dynamic page and I want to clean up the URL, at the moment the button looks like this:

echo "<a href='$page?\"?goto=true&id=".$custID."'>Edit</a>";

and I basically want to remove ** \"?goto=true&id=".$custID ** from the URL bar in the browser!

How can this be done.

Regards

Lee

I created a functional class that shortens or expands the URL using google's shortening service. The class works but i feel like i can optimize it more but i don't know really how because i'm new in using classes.
here is the code
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define('GOOGLE_API_KEY', 'khjdaskjfsjkdhgfbsdhgsj');
define('GOOGLE_ENDPOINT', 'https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1');

class shortenGoogle {
function shortenUrl($longUrl){
// initialize the cURL connection
$ch = curl_init(sprintf('%s/url?key=%s', GOOGLE_ENDPOINT, GOOGLE_API_KEY));

// tell cURL to return the data rather than outputting it
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
// create the data to be encoded into JSON
$requestData = array(
'longUrl' => $longUrl
);

// change the request type to POST
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);

// set the form content type for JSON data
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-type: application/json'));

// set the post body to encoded JSON data
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($requestData));

// perform the request
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

// decode and return the JSON response
return json_decode($result, true);
}

function expandUrl($shortUrl){
// initialize the cURL connection
$ch = curl_init(sprintf('%s/url?key=%s&shortUrl='.$shortUrl.'', GOOGLE_ENDPOINT, GOOGLE_API_KEY));

// tell cURL to return the data rather than outputting it
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

// tell cURL to ignore the SSL certificate in case it expires
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

// perform the request
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

// decode and return the JSON response
return json_decode($result, true);
}
}
$short = new shortenGoogle;
$url = $short->shortenUrl('http://www.google.com/');
print_r($url);