Alright so I started with something simple just to get me familiar with what exactly I am getting my self into, how ever when tinkering I became lost.
Okay so I am trying to get contents from the following
$details = json_decode(file_get_contents("https://beam.pro/api/v1/users/63662"));
what's the best way I can go about doing this?
Currently I can display the username portion using print $details->username; and the id portion using print $details->id; but after this I become lost how could I go about pulling the title for example.
Here is what the Twitter looks like currently in the API
"name":"Thursday -- BR 2's [NA] w/ beam.pro/para",
Documentation is here
You would use the following:
echo $details->channel->name;
However, if you're more comfortable with arrays, you could do this:
$details = json_decode(file_get_contents("https://beam.pro/api/v1/users/63662"), true);
echo $details['channel']['name'];
Here is the object structure for future reference:
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I am trying to use a weather API for a project and I am trying to build a simple weather app that will check the forecast and display it. The code looks like this:
$url = "http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?zip=30553&appid={APIKEY}";
$data = file_get_contents($url);
$decodeJSON = json_decode($data);
$testvar = "weather[0]->main";
echo $decodeJSON->$testvar;
and ideally I would like to be able to change $testvar to point at different variables returned by the API and as of right now I know it can't be done by combining "$decodeJSON->" and "$testvar", but is there anyway to achieve something close to what I have above that basically just assembles the two?
Appreciate all the help in advance and any feedback on the code is greatly appreciated!
I am trying to get a reply text message from Clickatell using their Rest API, when I call the parseReplyCallback function when their system posts to my page - it seems to be null or I am not sure how to get the variables it is returning. What I would like to do is have all of the variables returned insert into a SQL database so I can use it elsewhere.
I have tried quite a few things, using various styles of getting the variables such as $_POST, $results['text'], $results->text, and so forth each time I can't seem to get any information out of it. I can't just var_dump or anything because I can't see any backend or console so I am pretty much in the blind, hoping someone else is using this system and has it working fine.
require __DIR__.'/clickatell/src/Rest.php';
use clickatell\ClickatellException;
use clickatell\Rest;
$Rest = new Rest("j8VKw3sJTZuVfQGVC7jdhA");
// Incoming traffic callbacks (MO/Two Way callbacks)
$Rest->parseReplyCallback(function ($result) {
//mysqli_query($con,"INSERT INTO `SMSCHAT` (`text`) VALUES ('$result')");
$mesageId = mysqli_real_escape_string($con,$result['messageId']);
$text = mysqli_real_escape_string($con,$result['text']);
$replyMessageId = mysqli_real_escape_string($con,$result['replyMessageId']);
$to = mysqli_real_escape_string($con,$result['toNumber']);
$from = mysqli_real_escape_string($con,$result['fromNumber']);
$charset = mysqli_real_escape_string($con,$result['charset']);
$udh = mysqli_real_escape_string($con,$result['udh']);
$network = mysqli_real_escape_string($con,$result['network']);
$keyword = mysqli_real_escape_string($con,$result['keyword']);
$timestamp = mysqli_real_escape_string($con,$result['timestamp']);
//do mysqli_query
});
I'd like for it to break the result into individual variables (because I plan on doing other things such as an auto-reply, etc) and upload it to the SQL database scrubbed.
Either doesn't create the table entry or gives me a blank one altogether in that first test where I put the result in the text field.
From a Clickatell point of view, although we understand what you're asking - it's unfortunately outside the scope of support that we offer on our products.
If you would like more information on our REST API functionality, please feel free to find it here: https://www.clickatell.com/developers/api-documentation/rest-api-reply-callback/
If you don't succeed in setting up the callbacks, please feel free to log a support ticket here: https://www.clickatell.com/contact/contact-support/ and one of our team members will reach out and try to assist where possible.
I'm actually building a PHP bot that reads the youtube live streaming chat, and store in a Database the message that contains a specific keyword wrote by the users during the livestream. All the logic is in place, what is missing is the feedback on chat when the bot is "triggered".
I looked everywhere but seams the PHP documentation is missing, if you look inside the PHP Classes there is the public function insert, but there is no example at all on how to use it?
Someone know how to use it?
Should be something "simple" like: $result = $youtube->liveChatMessages->Insert($args); but I can't figure out on what args looks like.
HERE the only reference about the Insert method
Thanks to all for any suggestion on how to use it!
17/06/2018 edit Working Example
$liveChatMessage = new Google_Service_YouTube_LiveChatMessage();
$liveChatSnippet = new Google_Service_YouTube_LiveChatMessageSnippet();
$liveChatSnippet->setLiveChatId($liveChatID);
$liveChatSnippet->setType("textMessageEvent");
$messageDetails = new Google_Service_YouTube_LiveChatTextMessageDetails();
$messageDetails->setMessageText("Message to type in chat");
$liveChatSnippet->setTextMessageDetails($messageDetails);
$liveChatMessage->setSnippet($liveChatSnippet);
$videoCommentInsertResponse = $youtube->liveChatMessages->insert('snippet', $liveChatMessage);
In Short, I am pulling the feed from my blogger using the Zend API in PHP. I need to get the URL that will link to that post in blogger. What is the order of functions I need to call to get that URL.
Right now I am pulling the data using:
$query = new Zend_Gdata_Query('http://www.blogger.com/feeds/MYID/posts/default');
$query->setParam('max-results', "1");
$feed = $gdClient->getFeed($query);
$newestPost = $feed->entry[0];
I can not for the life of me figure out where I have to go from here to get the URL. I can successfully get the Post title using: $newestPost->getTitle() and I can get the body by using $newestPost->getContent()->getText(). I have tried a lot of function calls, even ones in the documentation and most of them error out. I have printed out the entire object to look through it and I can find the data I want (so I know it is there) but the object is too complex to be able to just look at and see what I have to do to get to that data.
If anyone can help me or at least point me to a good explanation of how that Object is organized and how to get to each sub object within it, that would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT: Never mind I figured it out.
You are almost there, really all you need to do is once you have your feed entry is access the link element inside. I like pretty URLs so I went with the alternate rather than the self entry in the atom feed.
$link = $entry->link[4]->href;
where $entry is the entry that you are setting from the feed.
The solution is:
$query = new Zend_Gdata_Query('http://www.blogger.com/feeds/MyID/posts/default');
$query->setParam('max-results', "1");
$feed = $gdClient->getFeed($query);
$newestPost = $feed->entry[0];
$body = $newestPost->getContent()->getText();
$body now contains the post contents of the latest post (or entry[0]) from the feed. This is just the contents of the body of the post, not the title or any other data or formatting.
OK, here's my dilemma:
I've read all over about how many guys want to be able to display a set of images from Flickr using PHPFlickr, but lament on how the API for PhotoSets does not put individual photo descriptions. Some have tried to set up their PHP so it will pull the description on each photo as the script assembles the gallery on the page. However, the method has shown how slow and inefficient it can be.
I caught an idea elsewhere of creating a string of comma separated values with the photo ID and the description. I'd store it on the MySQL database and then call upon it when I have my script assemble the gallery on the page. I'd use explode to create an array of the photo ID and its description, then call on that to fill in the gaps...thus less API calls and a faster page.
So in the back-end admin, I have a form where I set up the information for the gallery, and I hand a Set ID. The script would then go through and make this string of separated values ("|~|" as a separation). Here's what I came up with:
include("phpFlickr.php");
$f = new phpFlickr("< api >");
$descArray = "";
// This will create an Array of Photo ID from the Set ID.
// $setFeed is the set ID brought in from the form.
$photos = $f->photosets_getPhotos($setFeed);
foreach ($photos['photoset']['photo'] as $photo) {
$returnDesc = array();
$photoID = $photo['id'];
$rsp = $f->photos_getInfo($photoID);
foreach ($rsp as $pic) {
$returnDesc[] = htmlspecialchars($pic['description'], ENT_QUOTES);
}
$descArray .= $photoID."|~|".$returnDesc[0]."|~|";
}
The string $descArray would then be placed in the MySQL string that puts it into the database with other information brought in from the form.
My first question is was I correct in using a second foreach loop to get those descriptions? I tried following other examples all over the net that didn't use that, but they never worked. When I brought on the second foreach, then it worked. Should I have done something else?
I noticed the data returned would be two entries. One being the description, and the other just an "o"...hence the array $returnDesc so I could just get the one string I wanted and not the other.
Second question is if I made this too complicated or not. I like to try to learn to write cleaner/leaner code, and was looking for opinions.
Suggestions on improvement are welcome. Thank you in advance.
I'm not 100% sure as I've just browsed the source for phpFlickr, and looked the the Flickr API for the getInfo() call. But let me have a go anyway :)
First off, it looks like you shouldn't need that loop, like you mention. What does the output of print_r($rsp); look like? It could be that $rsp is an array with 1 element, in which case you could ditch the inner loop and replace it with something like $pic = $rsp[0]; $desc = $pic['description'];
Also, I'd create a new "description" column in your database table (that has the photo id as the primary key), and store the description in their on its own. Parsing db fields like that is a bit of a nightmare. Lastly, you might want to force htmlspecialchars to work in UTF8 mode, cause I don't think it does by default. From memory, the third parameter is the content encoding.
edit: doesn't phpFlickr have its own caching system? Why not use that and make the cache size massive? Seems like you might be re-inventing the wheel here... maybe all you need to do is increase the cache size, and make a getDescription function:
function getDescription ($id)
{
$rsp = $phpFlickr->photos_getInfo ($id);
$pic = $rsp[0];
return $pic['description'];
}