API Help! :)

[SecretSquirrel]

hey all I am new to using APIs and was wondering if anybody could give a lowly peon like myself a helping hand


Thanks !

[Goblinhunter]

Happy to help, but we are going to need more details on what areas you are having issues with so we can give specific help. Have you been through all teh details on http://census.soe.com/?

[Hamma]

Also check out our initial Wiki page on the API:

http://wiki.planetside-universe.com/ps/API

Otherwise as mentioned we will need more info on what you are trying to do.

[Dreadnaut]

What ^^ guys said

I know, I'm a giver.

[SecretSquirrel]

I went through the information that you all provded I never knew about he PSU wiki thanks for that

one question i Have is how do I extract information from this link in php @_@

http://census.soe.com/get/ps2-beta/o..._online_status

that was pulled from the census.seo.com example url

[Ghryphen]

Originally Posted by SecretSquirrel

I went through the information that you all provded I never knew about he PSU wiki thanks for that

one question i Have is how do I extract information from this link in php @_@

http://census.soe.com/get/ps2-beta/o..._online_status

that was pulled from the census.seo.com example url

Use file_get_contents() or cURL to fetch the url, then use decode_json() to convert the string into a data object. See php.net for some details and examples for those functions.

[Dreadnaut]

Originally Posted by Gryphon

Use file_get_contents() or cURL to fetch the url, then use decode_json() to convert the string into a data object. See php.net for some details and examples for those functions.

Exactly that, Eg:

<?php
     error_reporting(E_ALL);
     ini_set('display_errors', 1);

     $folder = "ps2-beta";
     $outfit_alias = "666";

     $member_status = json_decode(file_get_contents("http://census.soe.com/get/$folder/outfit?alias=$outfit_alias&c:resolve=member_online_status"));
?>

Then just loop through $member_status however you want and pull the info you need.

Hope that helps.

[SecretSquirrel]

I found the info in the PSU Wiki!

I wish this api had SOME sort of API docs

thanks for all the useful help! =d

[SecretSquirrel]

I am having an issue with this piece of code its not showing up for anybody but locally it works and outputs the information anybody have any ideas? thanks!

$character = $_POST["character"];
		$submit    = $_POST["submit"];

		if (isset($submit)) {
			$ApiLink     = "https://census.soe.com/get/ps2-beta/character/?name.first_lower=^" . $character . "&c:limit=1000&c:show=name.first&c:show=id&c:show=type.faction";
			$json_decode = (json_decode(file_get_contents($ApiLink), true));
			$output      = $json_decode["character_list"];

			foreach ($output as $key=> $value) {
				$get_character[$key]    = $output[$key]["name"];
				$get_character_id[$key] = $output[$key]["id"];
				echo $get_character[$key]["first"] . "<br/>";
				echo "it worked you submited " . $character;

			}
		}
		else {
			?>
        <form action="search.php" method="POST">
            <input type="text" name="character" autofocus required>
            <input name="submit" type="submit" value="Find me!">
        </form>
		<?php
		}

[Ghryphen]

It works for me, are you using CaSe in your search that isn't working? Should probably change to strtolower($_POST["character"]) to ensure you are searching with lower.

FYI, there is also a limit of 100 results.

http://www.planetside-universe.com/api/squirrel.php
http://www.planetside-universe.com/api/squirrel.phps
http://pside.co/YYv2nz

[SecretSquirrel]

awesome thanks =b I got it to work it was the strtolwr

I am having errors with an outfit listing here is the code and error
Error

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in F:\web server\wamp\www\API\includes\functions-outfit.php on line 37
Call Stack
#	Time	Memory	Function	Location
1	0.0002	249376	{main}( )	..\outfit.php:0
2	0.0021	527856	display_outfit_members( )	..\outfit.php:28

Code: The error is on the middle 3rd foreach ;( this only happens on certain outfits (666) for example

		foreach ($output as $key => $value) {
			$alias***91;$key***93;   = $output***91;$key***93;***91;"alias"***93;;
			$name***91;$key***93;    = $output***91;$key***93;***91;"name"***93;;
			$members***91;$key***93; = $output***91;$key***93;***91;"members"***93;;

			foreach ($members***91;$key***93; as $row) {

				$name_user   = $row***91;'name'***93;***91;'first'***93;;
				$char_id     = $row***91;'character_id'***93;;
				$outfit_rank = $row***91;'rank'***93;;
				$experience  = $row***91;'experience'***93;;
				$kills       = $row***91;'stats'***93;***91;'kills'***93;***91;'value'***93;;
				$deaths      = $row***91;'stats'***93;***91;'deaths'***93;***91;'value'***93;;
				$kdr         = $row***91;'stats'***93;***91;'kill_death_ratio'***93;***91;'value'***93;;
				$fcc         = $row***91;'stats'***93;***91;'facility_capture_count'***93;***91;'value'***93;;
				$fdc         = $row***91;'stats'***93;***91;'facility_defended_count'***93;***91;'value'***93;;
				$medals      = $row***91;'stats'***93;***91;'medal_count'***93;***91;'value'***93;;

				echo "<tr>";
				echo "<td><a href='character.php?id=" . $char_id . "'>" . $name_user . "</a></td>";
				echo "<td>" . $outfit_rank . "</td>";
				foreach ($experience as $expier => $value) {
					echo "<td>" . $value***91;'rank'***93; . "</td>";
					echo "<td>" . $value***91;'score'***93; . "</td>";

				}
				echo "<td>" . $kills . "</td>";
				echo "<td>" . $deaths . "</td>";
				echo "<td>" . number_format($kdr, 3) . "</td>";
				echo "<td>" . $fcc . "</td>";
				echo "<td>" . $fdc . "</td>";
				echo "<td>" . $medals . "</td>";
				echo "</tr>";
			}

[zomg]

Just have it var_dump the variables when it gives you an error so you can check what's wrong. Most likely the cause is that the API decides to return data that doesn't happen to contain the values. Some rows it returns are incomplete, and thus if your code assumes certain keys exist, it won't work properly.


They really should fix the API so it returns nulls for data that's not in place since missing keys is definitely not the right way to go.