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PHP script to call HarvestAPI
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<?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); | |
} | |
?> |
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