Ok I will try and keep this short. I'm making a request to a simple PHP API which can be done by AJAX through Javascript or JQuery, however I want to make the request using PHP. What is the best way to do this? Using the file_get_contents() function or CURL? If so how do I do it through CURL as the API requires I use GET not POST. Also the response I know is in XML, how do I then process the response once it comes back?
This question may have been asked many times, however when reviewing a lot of the questions and answers they are not specific to my needs on this one so please no answers with "Please see this link" as I can guarantee it won't answer the question in full as a lot of them are making requests from either Facebook API or another API that does not do what the API I am using does.
function getXML()
{
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://127.0.0.1/index.html");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "user:password");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);
$res = curl_exec($ch);
return $res;
}
$xml_data = getXML();
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadXML($xml_data);
$wms = $doc->getElementsByTagName('WowzaMediaServer');
$wmstotalactive = $wms->item(0)->getElementsByTagName("ConnectionsCurrent")->item(0)->nodeValue;
$wmstotaloutbytes = $wms->item(0)->getElementsByTagName("MessagesOutBytesRate")->item(0)->nodeValue;
so you extracted from xml the value from ConnectionsCurrent key and MessagesOutBytesRate
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If your link does not need to auth remove :
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "user:password");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);
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I am using - PHP Library of Twilio and want to grab all messages sent & received to a specific number?
I am new to this. Can any one guide/help me?
Twilio developer evangelist here.
You want to use the Messages list resource (you're right, the SMS resource is deprecated). You can pass in filters for the To and From attributes in order to get all the messages to that number.
Let me know if that helps.
i figured out a easy way to grab all messages of a specific number using CURL
$base_url = "https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/SID/Messages?From=1112223333";
$ch = curl_init($base_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$account_sid:$auth_token");
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$xml_array = new SimpleXMLElement($response);
echo "<pre>"; print_r($xml_array); echo "</pre>";
Its 100% working example and you can get working all other functions by reading their updated docs at https://www.twilio.com/docs/api/rest/message
Can you help me get this content spinning API working? It was wrote to work with C# but is there a way I can get it to work using PHP? I've been trying to post to the URL stated on that page using cURL, but all I'm getting back is a blank page. Here's the code I'm using:
$url = "http://api.spinnerchief.com/apikey=YourAPIKey&username=YourUsername&password=YourPassword";
// Some content to POST
$post_fields = "SpinnerChief is totally free. Not a 'lite' or 'trial' version, but a 100% full version and totally free. SpinnerChief may be free, but it is also one of the most powerful content creation software tools available. It's huge user-defined thesaurus means that its sysnonyms are words that YOU would normally use in real life, not some stuffy dictionary definition. And there's more...SpinnerChief can only get better, because we listen to our users, We take onboard your ideas and suggestions, and we update SpinnerChief so that it becomes the software YOU want!";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PORT, 9001);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_fields);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $result;
Can anyone see something wrong I'm doing? Thanks a lot for the help.
The value for CURLOPT_POST should be 1, and the posted data should be set with CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.
Can anyone kindly tell me how to use JSON base Authentication using/in PHP?
I got some helping code (as given below), but can not understand that how to use it.
url = http://testerws.heroku.com/
POST url + 'user_session.json',{:username => "admin",:password => "admin"}, :accept => 'application/json'
I am not sure whether this code is correct (with respect to syntax) or not. And I can not understand how to use it in combination with PHP.
So kindly help me to solve this, I am in great need of it.
You can use curl of php to post the json data.
$json = json_encode($data);
$http_post_data = array("data" => $json);
$url = 'http://testerws.heroku.com/test.php';
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $http_post_data);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
Then test.php will get the data which you post. You can do authentication your self and return to the calling script.
But the authentication is not that easy for a security system.
FYR.
http://blog.evernote.com/tech/2011/05/17/architectural-digest/
and read the comment.
What is the context of the authentification? If it's a webapplication you could probably fill in a form, post the data as JSON using JQuery and decoding the JSON on the PHP side and check the validation. Be sure to encrypt the information you send from the browser though. Username and password as clear text is not secure at all.
I am still fairly new at playing with PHP. I wanted to poke at a small project. I have the ability to access an xml feed from our calendar system at work. The feed requires authentication with a username and password. I am trying to automate pulling this feed. My hope is to one day use it to automate the scheduling of another system but for now I'm just trying to get this side working.
I have read through some of the cURL documentation on php.net. I have also searched through stackoverflow for a few examples. They were helpful in getting me started but not much further. Below is what I have so far. But all I get back is:
UNAUTHORIZED The request requires
authorization
So I'm racking my head to figure out what might be the issue. Part of my problem I'm sure is my ignorance with the actual process behind what is going on between the client and server. When I interact with it normally I just go to the feed URL, the browser prompts me for a username and password, and then after putting that in it gives me an xml page.
I've checked for most of the formatting errors and syntax errors I knew to look for. That may still be it but at this point I think it's more my lack of understanding how it all fits together. Thanks for any help.
Similar issues:
Parsing XML data with Namespaces in PHP
CURL HTTP Authentication at server side
<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://somesight.someplace.edu/r25ws/servlet/wrd/run/events.xml");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "username:password");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, Array("Content-Type: text/xml"));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_UNRESTRICTED_AUTH, 1);
$output = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $output;
?>
I figured it out on my own after looking at a similar tutorial for Twitter. I tried a different approach to formatting the options and it worked fine. I also cut down on the number of options I was sending because it seemed like overkill. Code that works below.
<?php
$username = 'myusername';
$password = 'mypassword';
$datecall = curl_init("http://somesite.someplace.edu/r25ws/servlet/wrd/run/events.xml");
curl_setopt($datecall, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username.":".$password);
curl_setopt($datecall, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$result = curl_exec($datecall);
echo $result;
?>
I use the following command in some old scripts:
curl -Lk "https:www.example.com/stuff/api.php?"
I then record the header into a variable and make comparisons and so forth. What I would really like to do is convert the process to PHP. I have enabled curl, openssl, and believe I have everything ready.
What I cannot seem to find is a handy translation to convert that command line syntax to the equivalent commands in PHP.
I suspect something in the order of :
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
// What goes here so that I just get the Location and nothing else?
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
// Get the response and close the channel.
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
The goal being $response = the data from the api “OK=1&ect”
Thank you
I'm a little confused by your comment:
// What goes here so that I just get the Location and nothing else?
Anyway, if you want to obtain the response body from the remote server, use:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
If you want to get the headers in the response (i.e.: what your comment might be referring to):
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
If your problem is that there is a redirection between the initial call and the response, use:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);