PHP example for The Game Crafter's web services.

TGC PHP

<?php

// reading in secret info via environment variables so I don't accidentally share it with anyone
$username = $_ENV['TGC_USER'];
$password = $_ENV['TGC_PASS'];
$apikey = $_ENV['TGC_API_KEY'];


// create a session
$session = post('session', array(
 'username' 	=> $username,
 'password' 	=> $password,
 'api_key_id' 	=> $apikey,
));
$session_id = $session->{'result'}->{'id'};

// fetch info about the user
$user = get('user/'.$session->{'result'}->{'user_id'}, array(
 'session_id' 	=> $session_id,
));

// upload a file to the filesystem
$file = post('file', array(
 'session_id'	=> $session_id,
 'file'		=> '@/Users/jt/Desktop/jt.jpg', // note the @ symbol at the start of the file path
 'name'		=> 'jt.jpg',
 'folder_id'	=> $user->{'result'}->{'root_folder_id'},
));

// dump what we know about the file
var_dump($file);


// execute a POST operation to TGC's web services and return an object
function post($url, $params) {
	$ch = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,'https://www.thegamecrafter.com/api/'.$url);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST,1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $params);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
	$result=curl_exec($ch);
	if(curl_errno($ch)) {  //catch if curl error exists and show it
  		echo 'Curl error: ' . curl_error($ch);
	        curl_close ($ch);
        }
	else {
	        curl_close ($ch);
		return json_decode($result);
        }
}

// execute a GET operation to TGC's web services and return an object
function get($url, $params) {
	$query = '?';
        if ($params) {
 		foreach($params as $key=>$value) {
			$query .= $key.'='.$value.'&';
                }
        }
        $query = trim($query, '&');
	$ch = curl_init();
	$timeout = 5;
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://www.thegamecrafter.com/api/'.$url.$query);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
	$result = curl_exec($ch);
	if (curl_errno($ch)) {  //catch if curl error exists and show it
  		echo 'Curl error: ' . curl_error($ch);
	        curl_close ($ch);
        }
	else {
	        curl_close ($ch);
		return json_decode($result);
        }
}


?>