Basically I want to have one centralized file (preferably .php or .txt).. In it I will define the version and online statuses of my 3 API's (login, register, and stats)
I will somehow link it to my system status page and call upon them in my html with like $version, $login, $register, or $stats and they will automatically display whatever is defined in the centralized file.
My stats page (https://epicmc.us/status.php).. I want to define it all from a seperate file and call upon it in the HTML.
I tried making an external file called check.php and put this in it:
<?php
$version = "1.0.0";
$login = 'online';
$register = 'online';
$stats = 'online';
echo json_encode(compact('version','login','register','stats'));
?>
and then in my stats page I called upon it with
<?php
$data= json_decode(file_get_contents('https://epicmc.us/api/bridge/check.php'),true);
echo $version;
echo $login;
echo $register;
echo $stats;
?>
The page is just blank though.
How would you go about implementing this into my stats page code?
http://pastebin.com/nREdfH1u
A good solution here would be to curl your file.
As you already return a JSON string containing your values, just curl your 'check.php' file and json_decode the response.
One of the advantages of this method is that you can access these informations from other domains.
You should be able to get all the values easily.
Example :
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'check.php');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); // to return the response in a variable and not output it
// $result contains the output string
$result = curl_exec($ch);
// close curl resource to free up system resources
curl_close($ch);
$array_response = json_decode($result, true);
// echo $array_response['version']...
Related
I have been trying to send the xml response I have stored in '$kxml' variable to the 'kycresult.php' page. I want to fetch the values from that xml and just print it. I am able to fetch the values if I store the xml in txt file and then get it using 'simplexml_load_file' but I don't want to create an extra file. Please let me know if there is a way to send the $kxml on next page.
$kycch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($kycch, CURLOPT_URL, $csckua_url);
curl_setopt($kycch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $kycxml);
curl_setopt($kycch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($kycch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 20);
$kycresult = curl_exec($kycch);
$curl_errno = curl_errno($kycch);
$curl_error = curl_error($kycch);
curl_close($kycch);
// echo $kycresult;
$kxml = simplexml_load_string($kycresult);
if ($kxml['ret'] == 'Y') {
// $ksuccess = 'Authentication Successful';
header('location:Kycresult.php');
} else {
$ksuccess = 'Authentication Failed';
}
As one of the possible solutions you can store the variable in session
session_start();
$_SESSION['kxml'] = $kxml;
Then on the next page it will be available through
$kxml = $_SESSION['kxml'];
But actually it still stores in the auxiliary file by default under the hood.
I have a small php script: domain1.com/script1.php
//my database connections, check functions and values, then, load:
$variable1 = 'value1';
$variable2 = 'value2';
if ($variable1 > 5) {
$variable3 = 'ok';
} else {
$variable3 = 'no';
}
And I need to load the variables of this script on several other sites of mine (different domains, servers and ips), so I can control all of them from a single file, for example:
domain2.com/site.php
domain3.com/site.php
domain4.com/site.php
And the "site.php" file needs to call the variable that is in script1.php (but I didn't want to have to copy this file in each of the 25 domains and edit each of them every day):
site.php:
echo $variable1 . $variable2 . $variable3; //loaded by script.php another domain
I don't know if the best and easiest way is to pass this: via API, Cookie, Javascript, JSON or try to load it as an include even from php, authorizing the domain in php.ini. I can't use get variables in the url, like ?variable1=abc.
My area would be php (but not very advanced either), and the rest I am extremely layman, so depending on the solution, I will have to hire a developer, but I wanted to understand what to ask the developer, or maybe the cheapest solution for this (even if not the best), as they are non-profit sites.
Thank you.
If privacy is not a concern, then file_get_contents('https://example.com/file.php') will do. Have the information itself be passed as JSON text it's the industry standard.
If need to protect the information, make a POST request (using cURL or guzzle library) with some password assuming you're using https protocol.
On example.com server:
$param = $_REQUEST("param");
$result = [
'param' => $param,
'hello' => "world"
];
echo json_encode($data);
On client server:
$content = file_get_contents('https://example.com/file.php');
$result = json_decode($content, true);
print_r ($result);
For completeness, here's a POST request:
//
// A very simple PHP example that sends a HTTP POST to a remote site
//
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"http://www.example.com/file.php");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,
"postvar1=value1&postvar2=value2&postvar3=value3");
// In real life you should use something like:
// curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,
// http_build_query(array('postvar1' => 'value1')));
// Receive server response ...
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$server_output = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
$result = json_decode($server_output , true);
So I'm trying to make a simple API, I have tried lots of different things. I want to show a random number on my JSON object and a token to go with it, then store both in a database. I don't want this to happen when you visit the webpage I want the data to get sent to a DB and generated from a separate page.
The first step in this is getting data from a different file.
Here's what I tried first:
index.php:
<?php
$odds = rand(1, 100);
?>
<pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;">
{
"odds": <?php echo $odds;?>
}
</pre>
Here's the file I'm trying to get the data from:
<?php
$url = "https://flugscoding.com/random/";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Riverside API");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
if(!$response = curl_exec($ch)) {
echo curl_error($ch);
}
curl_close($ch);
$data = json_decode($response, true);
echo $data->odds;
?>
Error:
Notice: Trying to get property 'odds' of non-object in D:\xxamp\htdocs\random\perp.php on line 16
What I tried after:
index.php:
<?php
$values = array("odds"=>rand(1, 100));
echo json_encode($values);
?>
Here's the file I'm trying to get the data from:
<?php
$json = file_get_contents("index.php");
echo $json;
// echo $json->odds;
?>
Error:
It doesn't show any data or errors, just a blank screen.
Does anyone have any solutions to this problem? I'm trying to make a provably fair system for a friend.
You're really close in both your examples:
#1
$data = json_decode($response, true);
echo $data->odds;
You're passing true into json_decode which makes it an associative array, not an object. So you will need to get the odds with $data['odds']; instead.
#2
$json = file_get_contents("index.php");
echo $json;
file_get_contents can either fetch a local file or remote file. In this case, you're passing a local file, so $json is the contents of the PHP code.
You can either:
(a) redesign it so that index.php is a function, and you can call the function from different files
(b) call index.php remotely and parse the results
a. Create a function in index.php that can get the odds:
<?php
function getData() [
return array("odds"=>rand(1, 100));
}
Then, in another file, you can:
<?php
require_once 'index.php';
$data = getData(); //now you have access to $data['odds'];
b. Call index.php remotely, like this:
$json = file_get_contents("http://localhost/index.php");
print_r(json_decode($json, true));
I'm programming in PHP.
An article I've found useful until now was mainly about how to CURL through one site with a lot of information, but what I really need is how to cURL on multiple sites with not so much information - a few lines, as a matter of fact!
Another part is, the article focus is mainly at storing it at the FTP server in a txt file, but I have loaded around 900 addresses into mysql, and want to load them from there, and enrich the table with the information stored in the links - Which I will provided beneath!
We have some open public libraries with addresses and information about these and an API.
Link to the main site:
The function I would like to use: http://dawa.aws.dk/adresser/autocomplete?q=
SQL Structure:
Data example: http://i.imgur.com/jP1J26U.jpg
fx this addresse: Dornen 2 6715 Esbjerg N (called AdrName in databasen).
http://dawa.aws.dk/adresser/autocomplete?q=Dornen%202%206715%20Esbjerg%20N
This will give me the following output (which I want to store in the AdrID in the database):
[
{
"tekst": "Dornen 2, Tarp, 6715 Esbjerg N",
"adresse": {
"id": "0a3f50b8-d085-32b8-e044-0003ba298018",
"href": "http://dawa.aws.dk/adresser/0a3f50b8-d085-32b8-e044-0003ba298018",
"vejnavn": "Dornen",
"husnr": "2",
"etage": null,
"dør": null,
"supplerendebynavn": "Tarp",
"postnr": "6715",
"postnrnavn": "Esbjerg N"
}
}
]
How to store it all in a blob, as seen in the SQL structure?
If you want to make a cURL request in php use this method
function curl_download($Url){
// is cURL installed yet?
if (!function_exists('curl_init')){
die('Sorry cURL is not installed!');
}
// OK cool - then let's create a new cURL resource handle
$ch = curl_init();
// Now set some options (most are optional)
// Set URL to download
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $Url);
// Set a referer
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, "http://www.example.org/yay.htm");
// User agent
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "MozillaXYZ/1.0");
// Include header in result? (0 = yes, 1 = no)
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
// Should cURL return or print out the data? (true = return, false = print)
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
// Timeout in seconds
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
// Download the given URL, and return output
$output = curl_exec($ch);
// Close the cURL resource, and free system resources
curl_close($ch);
return $output;
}
And then you call it using
print curl_download('http://dawa.aws.dk/adresser/autocomplete?q=Melvej');
Or you can directly convert it jSON object
$jsonString=curl_download('http://dawa.aws.dk/adresser/autocomplete?q=Melvej');
var_dump(json_decode($jsonString));
The data you download is json, so you can store that in a varchar column rather than blog.
Also the site with the api does not seem bothered about http referrer, user agent etc so you can use file_get_contents in place of curl.
So simply get all the results from your db, iterate over them, making a call to the api, and update the appropriate row with the correct data:
//get all the rows from your database
$addresses = DB::exec('SELECT * FROM addresses'); //i dont know how you actually access your db, this is just an example
foreach($addresses as $address){
$searchTerm = $address['AdrName'];
$addressId = $address['Vid'];
//download the json
$apidata = file_get_contents('http://dawa.aws.dk/adresser/autocomplete?q=' . urlencode($searchTerm));
//save back to db
DB::exec('UPDATE addresses SET status=? WHERE id=?', [$apidata, $searchTerm]);
//if you want to access the data, you can use json_decode:
$data = json_decode($apidata);
echo $data[0]->tekst; //outputs Dornen 2, Tarp, 6715 Esbjerg N
}
In my script I have a function that retrieves JSON information from the Github API, https://api.github.com/users/octocat/repos.
I want to have a different function to get all the languages used by (in this case) octocat and then count how many times he used the language.
I was thinking of this:
foreach($json['language'] as $RepoLanguage)
{
echo $RepoLanguage;
}
but that won't work, any suggestions/ideas?
I think the main reason is that you did not specify the User Agent as specified here: https://developer.github.com/v3/#user-agent-required
Did you check what result you have in the $json?
Here's a working example.
<?php
function get_content_from_github($url) {
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,1);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_USERAGENT,'My User Agent');
$content = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $content;
}
$json = json_decode(get_content_from_github('https://api.github.com/users/octocat/repos'), true);
foreach($json as $repo) {
$language = $repo['language'];
}
?>