Does anyone know how to code restler to work with php and mysql to produce something like the following:
I want to create a XML API Web Service and not sure where to start.
I want people to be able to query the database for information such as the following using a http request.
Example of Data
BrandName
Price
ShortDescription
SKU
Example Query
http://website.com/productxml?dep=1&Count=3&BrandName=Y&Price=Y
How would I go about writing such a script as I have searched the internet and cant find any examples and was wondering if you can help.
Thanks in advance
Roy
You could use Restler (http://luracast.com/products/restler/) and build a method
class YourClass {
public function productxml($dep, $Count, $BrandName, $Price) {
// your MySQL stuff
}
}
which handles your request.
See the examples (http://help.luracast.com/restler/examples/) how this can be done.
Hope this helps.
Greets.
You could use Restler #Restler Luracast.
The development has increased alot and its stable.
The fun part about this framework is that it supports multiple formats. All these formats can be added by just inserting a single line of code:
require_once '../../../vendor/restler.php';
use Luracast\Restler\Restler;
$r = new Restler();
$r->setSupportedFormats('JsonFormat', 'XmlFormat'); <---- Add format here
$r->addAPIClass('BMI');
$r->handle();
Also I would like to refer to my Luracast Restler template on bitbucket its public and its there for everybody to see.
I combined Restler with Doctrine so catching data from databases has never been easier. Its a raw version for now but I'll update it soon.
My version uses vagrant. Its a extension to virtualisation technology that makes development setup easy and fast. Once your application is ready you can deploy it to your server.
Link:Restler+Doctrine
1) Install virtualbox + vagrant
2) Clone my repository
3) Move to the cloned directory.
4) vagrant up
5) Enjoy and start programming your REST API in less than 10 minutes.
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I'm attempting to implement https://github.com/PHP-FFMpeg/PHP-FFMpeg
I copied the src/FFMpeg folder to my includes folder and made sure my autoloader knows where to find everything.
as a test I made a script that simply does:
$ffmpeg = FFMpeg\FFMpeg::create();
$video = $ffmpeg->open('video.mpg');
I get:
Fatal error: Class 'Doctrine\Common\Cache\ArrayCache' not found in /var/www/php/include/FFMpeg/FFProbe.php on line 203
My question is: does PHP-FFMPeg require Doctrine, because that is not stated in the documentation. What version do I need? Are there other prerequisites?
I could create a new question for this, but I'm not sure if I should. I now have PHP-ffmpeg implemented. I'm using Laravel, however that should be irrelevant for this question. I'm trying to enable progress monitoring. It works, however I need to pass in an ID so I can update the correct key in memcache.
$id = 12345;
$format->on('progress', function ($audio, $format, $percentage) {
//this works perfect, but doesn't tell me which item is being updated
Cache::put("progress", $percentage, .25);
//this does not work as I am unable to pass in $id, if I add it as the 4th argument above it will display the number of threads or something
//Cache::put("{$id}_progress", $percentage, .25);
});
I need clarification on the "on" method. I looked through https://ffmpeg-php.readthedocs.org/en/latest/_static/API/ and was not able to figure out how this method works. Any help would be appreciated.
You should follow the recommended instructions in the README.
Composer is the easiest way to install PHP-FFMpeg dependencies
The "on" method called on the format is an implementation of EventEmitter.
As you can see here : https://ffmpeg-php.readthedocs.org/en/latest/_static/API/FFMpeg/Format/ProgressableInterface.html it extends the EventEmitterInterface of https://github.com/igorw/evenement.
If you're really interested about how it works under the hood, have a look at here :
The progress listener is created here : https://github.com/PHP-FFMpeg/PHP-FFMpeg/blob/master/src/FFMpeg/Format/Audio/DefaultAudio.php#L96 and added at execution here https://github.com/PHP-FFMpeg/PHP-FFMpeg/blob/master/src/FFMpeg/Media/Video.php#L151
This is actually possible because FFMpegDriver extends the Driver provided by https://github.com/alchemy-fr/BinaryDriver
Hope this helps :)
I want to be able to call the CakeS3 plugin from the Cake Shell. However, as I understand it components cannot be loaded from the shell. I have read this post outlining strategies for overcoming it: using components in Cakephp 2+ Shell - however, I have had no success. The CakeS3 code here is similar to perfectly functioning cake S3 code in the rest of my app.
<?php
App::uses('Folder','Utility');
App::uses('File','Utility');
App::uses('CakeS3.CakeS3','Controller/Component');
class S3Shell extends AppShell {
public $uses = array('Upload', 'User', 'Comment');
public function main() {
$this->CakeS3 = new CakeS3.CakeS3(
array(
's3Key' => 'key',
's3Secret' => 'key',
'bucket' => 'bucket')
);
$this->out('Hello world.');
$this->CakeS3->permission('private');
$response = $this->CakeS3->putObject(WWW_ROOT . '/file.type' , 'file.type', $this->CakeS3->permission('private'));
if ($response == false){
echo "it failed";
} else {
echo "it worked";
}
}
This returns an error of "Fatal error: Class 'CakeS3' not found in /home/app/Console/Command/S3Shell.php. The main reason I am trying to get this to work is so I can automate some uploads with a cron. Of course, if there is a better way, I am all ears.
Forgive me this "advertising"... ;) but my plugin is probably better written and has a better architecture than this CakeS3 plugin if it is using a component which should be a model or behaviour task. Also it was made for exactly the use case you have. Plus it supports a few more storage systems than only S3.
You could do that for example in your shell:
StorageManager::adapter('S3')->write($key, StorageManager::adapter('Local')->read($key));
A file should be handled as an entity on its own that is associated to whatever it needs to be associated to. Every uploaded file (if you use or extend the models that come with the plugin, if not you have to take care of that) is stored as a single database entry that contains the name of the config that was used and some meta data for that file. If you do the line of code above in your shell you will have to keep record in the table if you want to access it this way later. Just check the examples in the readme.md out. You don't have to use the database table as a reference to your files but I really recommend the system the plugin implements.
Also, you might not be aware that WWW_ROOT is public accessible, so in the case you store sensitive data there it can be accessed publicly.
And finally in a shell you should not use echo but $this->out() for proper shell output.
I think the App:uses should look like:
App::uses('CakeS3', 'CakeS3.Controller/Component');
I'm the author of CakeS3, and no I'm afraid there is no "supported" way to do this as when we built this plugin, we didn't need to run uploads from shell and just needed a simple interface to S3 from our controllers. We then open sourced the plugin as a simple S3 connector.
If you'd like to have a go at modifying it to support shell access, I'd welcome a PR.
I don't have a particular road map for the plugin, so I've tagged your issue on github as an enhancement and will certainly consider it in future development, but I can't guarantee that it would fit your time requirements so that's why I mention you doing a PR.
I am just getting started with graph databases. I would like to talk to them in a PHP application. In particular, I am looking at OrientDB, mainly because of its licensing benefits and features over neo4j.
What is the recommended way to interact with OrientDB within PHP? Is there a generalized framework like tinkerpop for the PHP world?
I would like to query my graphs using mainly gremlin and a bit of OrientDB's extended SQL (only if necessary).
I know there are 2 php connectors: Orient and OrientDB-PHP, but have not tried them yet. Has anyone had any experiences with them? What are the pros and cons? I would of course prefer something like tinkerpop for PHP if it exists, but if it doesn't a library geared towards OrientDB is fine too.
I'm Alex, I actually wrote the biggest part of the codebase for Orient (the php library).
In PHP, currently, there is no thing like tinkerpop but I think you should be able to kickstart with Orient. Using it its extremely simple:
<?php
namespace Congow\Orient;
use Congow\Orient\Binding\HttpBinding;
use Congow\Orient\Binding\BindingParameters;
require __DIR__.'/../autoload.php';
$parameters = BindingParameters::create('http://admin:admin#127.0.0.1:2480/friends');
$binding = new HttpBinding($parameters);
$response = $binding->query('select from friends where any() traverse(0,1) ( #rid = #5:3 ) and #rid <> #5:3');
$friends = $response->getResult();
foreach ($friends as $friend) {
echo $friend->name, "\n";
}
Instead of writing the query from scratch you can also use the query builder:
$query = new Select(array('myClass'));
$query->orderBy("name ASC", false);
echo $query->getRaw() // SELECT FROM myClass ORDER BY name ASC
You could have a look at the tests of the library, or at the mini-samples in the example directory.
We are slowly keep going on with the development, so you find a few resources here: http://odino.org/blog/categories/orientdb/
Cheers,
I know It's been a while but I wanted to point out that you can use the Tinkerpop stack in PHP via available drivers.
These will allow you a certain level of abstraction over the underlying database you choose -- thus allowing you to switch DBs when needed (Neo4j, OrientDB, Titan, etc.).
TinkerPop 3
You can use Gremlin server (new name for rexster) via the php driver available:
gremlin-php check this tutorial
Tinkerpop 2 (no longer maintained)
You can use the Rexster server from the stack via the php drivers available:
rexpro-php check this article
Doolittle
rexpro-php-driver (PHP ext.)
When I'm trying to execute a functional unittest of a module within my Yii code, I keep receiving the following error:
CException: CHttpRequest is unable to determine the request URI.
At first, I though it was because it couldn't find the module. However, If I change the url to a wrong one, I get a correct error,s tating it couldn't find the view.
This is how my testing code looks like
public function testViewControllerModule()
{
ob_start();
Yii::app()->runController('module/controller/view');
}
Any ideas on what I might be missing?
bool.devs answer works so far.
This blog post explains the origin of the exception pretty well:
http://mattmccormick.ca/2012/09/14/unit-testing-url-routes-in-yii-framework/
In my case, I generalized the solution and have set the following variables in /www/protected/tests/bootstrap.php:
...
$_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] = 'index-test.php';
$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] = '/index-test.php';
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = 'index-test.php';
Yii::createWebApplication($config);
Consider using 'index-test.php' instead of 'index.php' because it contains the config 'test.php' which is responsible for fixtures and maybe other test relevated configurations.
If someone has better suggestions feel free to comment :)
Kind regards
I think it's because you haven't set any server variables, i.e $_SERVER and you might be doing something like this in your controller:
Yii::app()->request ....
So before you run your test, make sure you use a fixture for the server variables also. I think this should suffice for now:
$_SERVER=array(
'REQUEST_URI'=>'index.php', // the other fields should follow
);
However to run functional tests i would recommend using SeleniumRC, you won't have to do these workarounds then, and can simulate user clicks also, i think.
Read the initial guide to Functional Testing , read the selenium rc phpunit guide, and also the CWebTestCase documentation.
Notes: You might still have to use fixtures for some variables, and i don't have much experience in testing(which is bad), so i'm not very sure if i am completely correct about selenium.
I would like to create a web service in PHP which can be consumed by different consumers (Web page, Android device, iOS device).
I come from a Microsoft background so am confortable in how I would do it in C# etc. Ideally I would like to be able to provide a REST service which can send JSON.
Can you let me know how I can achieve this in PHP?
Thanks
Tariq
I developed a class that is the PHP native SoapServer class' REST equivalent.
You just include the RestServer.php file and then use it as follows.
class Hello
{
public static function sayHello($name)
{
return "Hello, " . $name;
}
}
$rest = new RestServer(Hello);
$rest->handle();
Then you can make calls from another language like this:
http://myserver.com/path/to/api?method=sayHello&name=World
(Note that it doesn't matter what order the params are provided in the query string. Also, the param key names as well as the method name are case-insensitive.)
Get it here.
I would suggest you go for Yii it is worth of learning. You can easily establish it in this.
Web Service. Yii provides CWebService and CWebServiceAction to simplify the work of implementing Web service in a Web application. Web service relies on SOAP as its foundation layer of the communication protocol stack.
Easiest way in PHP is to use GET/POST as data-in and echo as data-out.
Here's a sample:
<?php if(empty($_GET['method'])) die('no method specified');
switch($_GET['method']){
case 'add': {
if(empty($_GET['a']) || empty($_GET['b'])) die("Please provide two numbers. ");
if(!is_numeric($_GET['a']) || !is_numeric($_GET['b'])) die("Those aren't numbers, please provide numbers. ");
die(''.($_GET['a']+$_GET['b']));
break;
}
}
Save this as test.php and go to http://localhost/test.php?method=add&a=2&b=3 (or wherever your webserver is) and it should say 5.
PHP does have native support for a SOAP server ( The SoapServer class manual shows it) and I've found it pretty simple to use.
Creating a REST style API is pretty easy if you use a framework. I don't want to get into a debate about which framework is better but CakePHP also supports output as XML and I'm pretty sure others will as well.
If you're coming from a Microsoft background just be careful about thinking about "datasets". They are a very specific Microsoft thing and have been a curse of mine in the past. It's probably not going to be an issue for you, but you may want to just see the differences between Microsoft and open implementations.
And of course PHP has a native json_encode() function.
You can check out this nice RESTful server written for Codeigniter, RESTful server.
It does support XML, JSON, etc. responses, so I think this is your library.
There is even a nice tutorial for this on the Tutsplus network -
Working with RESTful Services in CodeIgniter
You can also try PHP REST Data Services https://github.com/chaturadilan/PHP-Data-Services
You can use any existing PHP framework like CodeIgniter or Symfony or CakePHP to build the webservices.
You can also use plain PHP like disscussed in this example