How do I use Autoscout24 API (Car search portal) in php? I read documentation in that website. I actually configured the config file and connected to API server.
But am not able to get and display filter criteria like model, make etc with html template. Any one have good example to use this API in php?
A PHP SDK is available from this site: http://www.developergarden.com/en/apis/docu-support/
Don't know how well it works though, I only just came across it.
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I am new to android and php and working on old project.
Everything worked smoothly till yesterday. I am getting all videos from you tube api:
https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=&start-index=1&max-results=10&v=2&alt=json
But from today, i just get only one video from this link and that is:
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6098135?p=yt_devicesupport&hl=en&rd=1
I have read that v2 become depreciated so i need to move to v3 version ?
I need help on how to get all videos as before.
There isn't really an easy answer for this. At least, we can't really just give you a new address to plop in the place of the old one. API v3 is structured differently and has different requirements than v2. Some of those changes at least theoretically bring some performance advantages, but when requesting things from this new API, you need to be more specific about what you're looking for. Also, since some of the data has moved around within the JSON results, you may need to change where your code looks for given information.
As it is, I don't really know what information you need, or for that matter, what collection of videos you're looking for. In this version of the API, these details actually matter. In v3, you have to provide a comma-separated list of the information you're looking for, and then at least one more "filter" parameter as well (filters, for your cases are probably either "chart" which is something like the "chart of the most popular", or "id" which is a comma-separated list of video IDs.)
While it's probably not the answer you were looking for, you probably need to stroll through the documentation. I especially suggest the Try It section, where you can plug in your parameters and build the query.
You'll need an API key to use the new API, and you can get that key from the Google Developers console. Create a new project, and add the YouTube API to it.
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.
EDIT:
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.
I am trying to build a web application that would display Twitter feed based on multiple hashtags in real time. Something like TweeterWall. I've been Googling around, but there are so many APIs that I am a bit confused.
My setup is a standard shared hosting with PHP and MySQL.
My question: Which method is best suited for my environment?
Should I use Streaming API, Search API, Sockets, maybe Javascript with setInterval()..
i realy ont know..
Thanks for your answers.
- Cheers
Take a look at this project on GitHub. Don't be confused by the title - it has been updated since Twitter's API update to 1.1.
The jQuery plugin on the page has been re-purposed to be a Rendering engine, i.e. it helps with rendering your feeds.
The important part, however is in the "Server-Side Examples and Setup" directory. Go there, read the SETUP_INSTRUCTIONS document, and use the code in the "Plug_and_Play/Ready_PHP.php" file as your starting point.
If you followed the instructions in the SETUP_INSTRUCTIONS document, you should only have to copy and paste the keys from Twitter into the file, along with a Twitter handle, and it should render the timeline for you.
Note that you will have to update the code to render multiple timelines, and will have to either use AJAX or some other solution for updating the timelines, to simulate real-time.
On that note, be careful not to blow the rate-cap. If you are rendering timelines for just two Twitter handles, you can update them only once every 6 seconds (best case scenario). To do this, you will have to use a separate web service to perform the requests and then query that service from your webpage.
P.S. I am the author of that project, so if you need any help, let me know. Good luck! :)
My web development experience has mostly been setting up a CMS like Wordpress or Drupal and creating custom themes. Actually work in server-size coding has been very minimal. I've played around with php a little, trying to mod off of phpBB and beginning to learn some MVC work with CodeIgniter. Overall, this seems like a pretty big step forward, but it's something I need (I think) to do for a project I am working on.
Essentially what I want to do is have a service like Twitter of Facebook (not in the social networking sense); a user is able to log into the site and perform various operations, while also being able to use an android application that supports limited operations.
After some Googling and reading articles on the internet, it appears REST is the way to go. But I can't quite seem to grasp some of the technical details. I understand how the HTTP Request/Response works, but I don't know how I can code everything server side so that visiting example.com/item/1 will bring up the details of item 1 in the browser and can also perform a GET Request in my Android app so it can grab the details from the database and display in on the site.
Any suggested readings or some tips on how to execute this?
You can implement this using MVC. By default, have the controller ask the model for the details of the item, then pass the info to the view. Repeat this process for each type of request you want to accept such as POST, PUT etc., where you define a new function in the controller, ask the model to perform the corresponding database action, and return the response to the view.
There is helpful tutorial for getting a REST server up and running using CodeIgniter here
I currently have a web app that uses the google maps API, PHP, and MySQL to populate custom map bubbles and markers on a map.
Currently, the app is hosted by us and managed by us and is included as an iframe on a clients page, however this is quite tiresome..
I would like to develop an API/library that can be included on the page and then inject code into a div container (much like Google maps does). However, i have no idea what to search for or what to read up on to learn.
I have a basic rest api that is configured to provide read-only functionality in json/jsonp format to an authorized client. I am using Phil Sturgeon's REST-SERVER library for CI.
Here is a link to the current format, we pull this page in an iframe with no-scrollbars.
http://fhaz.mapitusa.com
Update: I found a partial solution.. web widgets: http://alexmarandon.com/articles/web_widget_jquery/
i need to develop a web widget.
I need to know:
what to learn
what types of programming methodologies to know
What to look for examples
What are some options to get away from the iframe and using a sort of "hard embed".
You didn't say it out loud, but because you specifically mention you now have a read-only api i figure you also want to send commands to the (your) server. I would start with looking into authentication methods. And for this, I would go for OAuth. You'll have to write a basic client class which can connect and authenticate the client to the server. This can be pretty simple and small. Php even has a pecl extension available (see http://nl.php.net/manual/en/book.oauth.php) which is pretty easy to use. If you do not have the possibility of installing pecl extensions curl will also do the trick, and even that isn't really necessary. Twitter also has a nice explanation of how OAuth works, with links to external resources. Check it out! https://dev.twitter.com/docs/auth/oauth
Note that at the server level you'll have to implement your own role system, oauth only lets your client connect to the server in a secure manner. Ie. it will let your "users" log in to your application, but will not check if the logged in user is, example given, an admin user with all rights, a read-only user or something in the middle.
If you have OAuth straightened out just write a list of API calls you want to implement. You should namespace them, for example like:
/map/marker/get
/map/marker/set
/map/bubble/get
...
Your client API should be able to make a call like this:
$api = new MyGreatApi();
$params = array('id' => 3, 'color' => 'red', ...);
$response = $api->call('/map/marker/get', $params);
echo $response;
Check out some oauth library implementations like the one Twitter promotes (https://dev.twitter.com/docs/twitter-libraries#php), or in example the really simple one bits on the run uses (http://developer.longtailvideo.com/botr/downloads/php-api-kit.zip)
At server level you catch the api call and route the request to the specific controller (to use some MVC terms). If, eg, you fetch the call '/map/marker/get' you can just explode('/', $call); and search for the right class/function/method/whatever and let it do the magic for you, then send back the output (which can be as simple as to echo $output) and you are up and running! Note that if you have the authentication and role-checking right, the functions which produce the output can be treated as normal, oldschool, php functions. There's nothing special at them! It's the authentication and routing of api calls which should be your main concern.
I hope this clarifies some of your questions and give you a direction. If I misunderstood your question, please correct me!