I am trying to create a system that can create jira tickets from our application, which is independent of jira.
I have heard of REST API and Soap API but I dont really know how to use these api?
Is there anything that can help me to get a kick start?
any help is highly appreciated.
Have a look at the documentation. http://docs.atlassian.com/jira/REST/latest/
A REST api usually accepts HTTP request with data and sends something back. And there are plenty of REST clients written in PHP, so you won't need to do it again. Just have a look at packagist.org and search for "rest" to find about 14 pages worth of related stuff, with "Guzzle" being the most used: https://packagist.org/packages/guzzle/guzzle
Read up :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2217758/what-is-a-rest-api
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I'm quite new to PHP. As a learning project, I'm currently building a website on which users can order products.
I don't want my website to connect to the database I have directly, but I want that process to go through an API I've made. The API has a quite simple structure: the index.php receives the call and the variables (through post) and then, depending on the type of data received, runs one of the functions in one of it's controllers.
So, the question:
How do I set up a connection between my website and my php api (on the same server) to access my database?
I have searched the web and SO for API connections but most of the questions are about the FB API and oAuth etcetera. If I have missed a similar question please inform me because then I'll delete this question.
Any help would be much appreciated, Thank you in advance!
Sounds like you want to implement a REST API. There are a boatload of tutorials and helpful links that you can find very easily to read up on this subject. (Here is a decent starting point). There are also many, many frameworks that you can use that handle RESTful interactions automatically.
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Once you have a REST API setup, the best way to connect and interact with your API in PHP is using the cURL module. This is a good intro to the subject of using cURL in PHP.
The current preferred structure for passing data from API -> client is JSON. PHP makes it trivial to work with JSON. Within your API use json_encode to convert a PHP variable into it's JSON equivalent string. Inside your client, convert the JSON response from your API into a PHP object using the inverse function: json_decode
This is a very well known/widely used technique and there are many more nuances to consider, but this should be a sufficient intro for testing purposes. Once you understand the ideas I strongly recommend doing some google/stackoverflow searches and reading more on the subject.
Hi there I was wondering if anyone could help me out.
Basically I am trying to use the trafficEstimatorService in order to retrieve how much traffic a keyword that is entered through a HTML generates.
I have an idea of how to make it work but I am totally new to using the google API.
Firstly would I create the form in php and perform a GET request on the trafficEstimator url with the keywords in the form as parameters?
Thanks!
I found that the hardest part of getting started was the Oauth Authentication. Ewan Hemming's tutorial on the subject helped me out a lot: http://www.ewanheming.com/adwords-api-oauth-tutorial
Take a look at https://github.com/googleads/googleads-php-lib
It's a php client library including examples on how to do things + a video which is a very good and detailed starting point.
If you already tried to follow Make Your First API Call and video with talk through instead of walkthrough of the steps and you felt confused and unclear, then here is step by step tutorial for you.
I have a small web app written in php / mysql that stores customer information and does various things with it.
One of my users has expressed interest in integrating my app with the custom software (also web-based) that they use for setting up customer appointments.
Basically they want a system where, when they create a new customer account using their online software, that information is automatically relayed to my application, to create the customer account on my end as well. This would save them having to enter the same information twice.
I am wondering what your suggestions are for the easiest way to approach something like this? Do I have to create a full-blown RESTful API? (I have never done anything like that before and am not really sure where to start with such a thing.) Or is there a simpler way?
Any ideas or suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks (in advance) for your help!
In order for another application to communicate with yours, you will have to create some type of API, whether it be RESTful or not.
Personally, I recommend REST as it is fairly trivial to setup and there are LOTS of tutorials on the internet to show you how. If you use Zend Framework, it's 10x easier as they have a REST controller you can extend and quickly build an API with.
Something very simple, which has worked for me is to simply accept the information as a POST. The other application will send the information via POST, which you process in your php, and store it in mysql. if the data is sensitive, you can set up a cert and go over ssl.
Salesforce doesn't have (or appear to have) any tutorials that deal with using their REST api with PHP. If anyone knows about a good tutorial to learn it or a link to put turn me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated.
There's also this DeveloperForce Cookbook Recipe that shows how to call the REST API from PHP - http://developer.force.com/cookbook/recipe/interact-with-the-forcecom-rest-api-from-php
While not PHP specific, I've the Apigee developer console useful for exploring the REST api.
I am creating a little flash game for the facebook platform, but I am finding it very difficult to get any decent documentation on the graph api and the PHP SDK, so if anyone has a decent resource for a beginner to go and learn the basics, I would appreciate it very much, as I am struggling to grasp the concept.
Thanx!
I agree that the docs can be pretty hard work for facebook. If you are looking to use the Graph API tho, bear in mind that it is just a REST API that uses oAuth for authentication, much the same as Twitter, SoundCloud etc.
The most awkward bit I found was authenticating properly so I would suggest checking out the oAuth website
http://oauth.net/
They also have some PHP samples which were what I used as a starting point. I'd definitely recommend starting from these rather than trying to build your own setup from scratch.
http://oauth.googlecode.com/svn/code/php/
I also found it handy to refer to the docs on some of the other sites that use oAuth, such as Twitter and SoundCloud as it helped build my overall understanding of what is going on, even if there were a few small differences from one site to another
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Authentication
http://wiki.github.com/soundcloud/api/02-authentication
Personally I would suggest just trying to do a basic oAuth-authenticated request to begin with. Facebook Graph has a few extra options such as using scope for extended permissions. Whilst you will probably need to use these in the end, once you get your head round the signing mechanism its easy enough to add in these extra details.
Once you have got the hang of signing requests, it is just a case of requesting the appropriate endpoint for what you want using either curl or any other method that takes your fancy.
Hope this is of some use