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February 3, 2014 04:47
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Secure WordPress JSON API with API Key
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| <?php | |
| /* place in theme's functions.php file */ | |
| /* disable json api if api key not correct */ | |
| add_action('init','json_api_apikey_check' , 1 ); | |
| function json_api_apikey_check() | |
| { | |
| $api_key = 'hello'; | |
| $base = get_option('json_api_base', 'api'); | |
| $this_url = "http://$_SERVER[HTTP_HOST]$_SERVER[REQUEST_URI]"; | |
| if ( ( isset($_REQUEST['json'] ) || strstr($this_url , $base.'/') ) && ( !isset($_REQUEST['apikey']) || $_REQUEST['apikey'] != 'hello' ) ) | |
| { | |
| print "[error:99] Permission denied!"; | |
| exit; | |
| } | |
| } |
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This is what I am exactly looking for, but how does the $api_key gets passed from the caller? Does that need to be query string?