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Consuming JSON API - dadonk - 02-01-2016
What is the best way to consume remote API's in codeignitor and should the call go in the model or the controller?
RE: Consuming JSON API - cartalot - 02-01-2016
this is one way to do it. so in the controller
PHP Code:
function getItemsFor($orderid){
if( ! $items = $this->awesomeorders->returnItems($orderid) )
{
$this->_showNoItemsForOrder($orderid) ;
}
else{
$this->_showApiOrderItems($items) ;
}
}
in the model awesomeorders
PHP Code:
function returnItems($orderid){
// set HTTP header
$headers = array('Content-Type: application/json',);
// the url of the API you are contacting to 'consume'
$url = 'https://someservice.com/jsonOrderItems/'.$orderid ;
// Open connection
$ch = curl_init();
// Set the url, number of GET vars, GET data
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
// Execute request
$result = curl_exec($ch);
// Close connection
curl_close($ch);
// get the result and parse to JSON
$items = json_decode($result);
if(isset($items)){ return $items ; }
else { return FALSE ; }
}//