Original Url: http://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/community/api/PHP-example

Yussef.2074:

It’s been a while since I’ve done any programming in php. What would a simple php request (that then puts the request into a string) for say the events.json look like?

How about a java servlet version of that?

TimeBomb.3427:

Haven’t tested this code, but something like this should work for PHP (curl is required):

// create a new cURL resource
$ch = curl_init();

// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, “https://api.guildwars2.com/v1/events.json?world_id=1001”);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); // so curl_exec returns data

// grab URL and pass it to the browser; store returned data
$curlRes = curl_exec($ch);

// close cURL resource, and free up system resources
curl_close($ch);

// Decode returned JSON so it can be handled as a multi-dimensional associative array
$data = json_decode($curlRes, true);

vigorator.7420:

That code should work, i’m using something almost exactly like that for my stuff.

Ravenmoon.5318:

If you find cURL too hard to understand at first you can easily get away with file_get_contents for GET requests
e.g.

$data = json_decode( file_get_contents($url) );

smiley.1438:

file_get_contents() needs allow_url_fopen set to true, so it’s no option to rely on since a lot providers don’t allow it for security reasons.
If you want your script to run on any server, try something like this:

https://gist.github.com/codemasher/4d30a47df24195ac509f

function gw2_api_request($request){
	$url = parse_url('https://api.guildwars2.com/v1/'.$request);
	if(!$fp = @fsockopen('ssl://'.$url['host'], 443, $errno, $errstr, 5)){
		return 'connection error: '.$errno.', '.$errstr;
	}

	$nl = "\r\n";
	$header = 'GET '.$url['path'].'?'.$url['query'].' HTTP/1.1'.$nl.'Host: '.$url['host'].$nl.'Connection: Close'.$nl.$nl;
	fwrite($fp, $header);
	stream_set_timeout($fp, 5);

	//in case of a chunked response, try http://stackoverflow.com/a/3290822
	$response = '';
	do{
		if(strlen($in = fread($fp,1024))==0){
			break;
		}
		$response.= $in;
	}
	while(true);

	$response = explode($nl,$response);
	
	if(isset($response[0]) && $response[0] == 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK'){
		$response = json_decode($response[count($response)-1]);
	}

	return $response;
}

JonnyTen.9428:

Here’s something extremely simple for the curious PHP beginners that simply want a quick result. Wouldn’t recommend building on this method though:


function getItem($id) {
$response = file_get_contents(“https://api.guildwars2.com/v1/item_details.json?item_id=”.$id);
$response = json_decode($response, false);

return $response;
}

//Use as following:
echo getItem(12345)->name;

Alternatively I use the HttpRequest class


function getItem($id)
{
$req = new HttpRequest(‘https://api.guildwars2.com/v1/item_details.json’, HttpRequest::METH_GET);

//Add GET values, in this case just the item_id and language
$req->addQueryData(array(
‘item_id’ => $id,
‘lang’ => ‘en’
));

try {
//Sends it and fills $result Object
$result = $req->send();

//If any errors
} catch (HttpException $ex) {
echo $ex;
}

return ($result);


}

print_r(getItem(12345));

smiley.1438:

protip: try the [pre] tag to post code

What i’ve written just one post before applies also to your first code example.