PHP script to call HarvestAPI

CallHarvestAPI.php

<?php

// modified code from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9802788/call-a-rest-api-in-php
// Method: POST, PUT, GET etc
// Data: array("param" => "value") ==> index.php?param=value


/*

//had to install php curl
sudo apt-get install php5-curl
sudo service apache2 restart

//It's possible you'll need to install more:
sudo apt-get install curl libcurl3 libcurl3-dev;

*/

function CallAPI($method, $url, $data = false)
{
    $curl = curl_init();

    switch ($method)
    {
        case "POST":
            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

            if ($data)
                curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
            break;
        case "PUT":
            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_PUT, 1);
            break;
        default:
            if ($data)
                $url = sprintf("%s?%s", $url, http_build_query($data));
    }

    // Optional Authentication:
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "username:password");

    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

    $result = curl_exec($curl);

    curl_close($curl);

    return $result;
}


// use function on root level of API to show all available API endpoints
$endpoints = CallAPI('GET', 'harvestdata.herokuapp.com');
print_r($endpoints);

//call farmers resource to return string
$farmers = CallAPI('GET', 'harvestdata.herokuapp.com/farmers/');

//convert JSON string to PHP variable (object)
$farmer_objects = json_decode($farmers);

$num_farmers = $farmer_objects->count;
$next_page_url  = $farmer_objects->next;
echo "the next 10 results of ".$num_farmers." are found here:".$next_page_url;

//now get the actual farmers from results
$fama_dem = $farmer_objects->results;

foreach ($fama_dem as $fama) {
	// code...
    echo '<p>Farmer :</p>';
    echo nl2br($fama->first_name." ".$fama->last_name);

}

?>