I'm trying to understand how to record the result of a curl GET request using php. I'm looking at outputing part or all of the result to mysql.
https://github.com/cloudtrax/docs/blob/master/api/code/php/simple_api_server_test_harness.php
function invoke_curl($method, $endpoint, $headers, $json) {
$api_server = 'https://api.cloudtrax.com';
try {
// get a curl handle then go to town on it
$ch = curl_init($api_server . $endpoint);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
if ($result == FALSE) {
if (curl_errno($ch) == 0)
echo "@@@@ NOTE @@@@: nil HTTP return: This API call appears to be broken" . "
";
else
throw new Exception(curl_error($ch), curl_errno($ch));
}
else
echo "RESULT:
" . $result . "
";
}
The $result shows like this:
{
"clients": {
"ssid2": 4,
"ssid1": 10
},
"rows": [
{
"time": "2016-03-23T02:45:00Z",
"ssid2": {
"traffic": {
"unclassified": {
// etc...
How can I associate each part of the result too a variable so I can then input too mysql?
It looks like this result in json format. You can use json_decode to decode it:
$resultObject = json_decode($result);
$clients = $resultObject->clients;
// ... get other data from result
The code below will convert the json into a PHP array. You can then use the indexes of the array to pull out values.
$result = json_decode($result);
$clients = $result->clients;
// Some MySQL queries
If your response is a JSON response then you can simply use php's json_decode to get parsed object.
$result = curl_exec($ch);
//to get associative array passing true
$jsonObj = json_decode($result, true);
$clients = $jsonObj['clients'];
$rows = $jsonObj['rows'];
You can refer to these answers for more detail: Parsing JSON object in PHP using json_decode and Parsing JSON file with PHP