Bebo and Codeignitor Error - Printable Version

Bebo and Codeignitor Error - Printable Version

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Bebo and Codeignitor Error - El Forum - 05-15-2008

[eluser]damon311[/eluser]
All,

I am new to CodeIgniter (I'm making the switch from Rails and Java) so this may be user error. I'm getting a "api key is invalid" error when running the code below. I've copied the Bebo PHP library (http://developer.bebo.com/downloads/example-libs-php.php [renamed to Bebo.php]) to $home/system/application/libraries/Bebo.php. The library is being loaded properly but it complains about the API key (I copied and pasted both the api and secret key from Bebo). Any ideas? Thanks

Code:
class Test extends Controller {

        function Test() {

            parent::Controller();

            require_once APPPATH . 'libraries/Bebo.php';    

            #load config

            $this->my_config = $this->config->item('bebo');

            #initialise bebo

            $apikey = $this->my_config['api_key'];

            $apisecret = $this->my_config['api_secret'];

            $this->bebo = new Bebo($apikey,$apisecret,true);

        }

        function index() {

            $friends = $this->bebo->friends_get();

            foreach($friends as $item):

                echo $item;

                echo '<hr/>';    

            endforeach;

        }

    }

Bebo and Codeignitor Error - El Forum - 05-15-2008

[eluser]Seppo[/eluser]
are you really using an object to store the config?
try echoing $apikey and $apisecret to check out if the valures are correctly passed.

Bebo and Codeignitor Error - El Forum - 05-15-2008

[eluser]damon311[/eluser]
Thanks for your reply. I ran the code below and the apikey and apisecret are correctly displayed, but I'm still getting "api key is invalid" message.

Code:
class Test extends Controller {

        function Test() {

            parent::Controller();

            require_once APPPATH . 'libraries/Bebo.php';    

            #load config

            $this->my_config = $this->config->item('bebo');

            #initialise bebo

            $apikey = $this->my_config['api_key'];

            $apisecret = $this->my_config['api_secret'];

            $this->bebo = new Bebo($apikey,$apisecret,true);

            echo $apikey . '<br/>';

            echo $apisecret . '<br/>';

        }

        function index() {

            $friends = $this->bebo->friends_get();

            foreach($friends as $item):

                echo $item;

                echo '<hr/>';    

            endforeach;

        }

    }

Bebo and Codeignitor Error - El Forum - 05-16-2008

[eluser]Seppo[/eluser]
Well... on this point I think you are having a problem with Bebo, and it has nothing to do with CI...
Try aislating this issue: create a new empty file, load the library and try using it there...
Alos make sure you have no white-space on your api key/api secret. I can't realize why else you can have this issue...

Bebo and Codeignitor Error - El Forum - 05-16-2008

[eluser]damon311[/eluser]
I tried that last night and you are correct. To get things working, I realized that I needed to add

Code:
ini_set('arg_separator.output', '&');

My apologies.

Now this is a CodeIgniter question. I read the documentation on how to automatically pass parameters to the constructors of classes placed in the libraries directory. Again, I'm new and probably did something wrong. Essentially, do I have to initialize my Bebo class in every controller? This is what I'm doing now.

Code:
function Test() {

            parent::Controller();

            ini_set('arg_separator.output', '&');

            require_once APPPATH . 'libraries/Bebo.php';

            #load config

            $this->my_config = $this->config->item('bebo');

            #initialise bebo

            $apikey = $this->my_config['api_key'];

            $apisecret = $this->my_config['api_secret'];

            $this->bebo = new Bebo($apikey,$apisecret,true);

        }

Bebo and Codeignitor Error - El Forum - 05-16-2008

[eluser]Michael Wales[/eluser]

Quote:Essentially, do I have to initialize my Bebo class in every controller?

Yes - within every controller you intend to use the Bebo API. If you are going to be using it a lot (as in everywhere) you could just make the class initialize itself. Look at any of the CI libraries for an example of how to do so.

Bebo and Codeignitor Error - El Forum - 05-16-2008

[eluser]Seppo[/eluser]
To keep it simple I would rename bebo class (for example I call it bebo_app) and I create an own bebo class that extends the real bebo class (bebo_app) and I make it do the repetitive work... something like this

Code:
class Bebo extends Bebo_app

{

    public function __construct()

    {

                ini_set('arg_separator.output', '&');    

        $CI =& get_instance();

        $CI->load->config('bebo');

        $app_info = $CI->config->item('bebo');

        parent::__construct($this->my_config['api_key'], $this->my_config['api_secret'], true);

    }

}

class Bebo_app {

  public $api_key = "";

// and so on...