GET cross domain proxy to display in html

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January 25th, 2013, 11:00 PM

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I am having a hell of a time grabbing a URL ttp://184.173.18.228/api/profile/1000/0/Adam.Adams that is XML when viewed in the browser - the idea is that when a user updates their profile (on another site) it will update ( also) on our site.. I have tried everything to get that url into php to echo on page - I was able to display the xml info on a page when the xml was local on my machine with jQuery but we need to use PHP ( I guess)
Can anyone show me how to do this? using a cross domain proxy script (?) CURL? Im lost - how hard would it be for someone to grab that url and at least display one node? for me for example code? Im not a PHP guy but we need this feature on our site - thanks
Rob

January 25th, 2013, 11:10 PM

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 $xml = new SimpleXMLElement("http://that thing", 0, true);

should get you started.

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January 26th, 2013, 12:12 AM

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that has definitely taken me on the right path - thanks!

January 26th, 2013, 01:21 AM

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Im really close but I get the same error no matter which code I try

Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct(): Entity: line 1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found in /code/5wTn3P on line 5

Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct(): {"ProfileSections":[{"SectionType":"ContactCard","Sections":[{"ContentType":"Pro in /code/5wTn3P on line 5

Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct(): ^ in /code/5wTn3P on line 5

and the code being along these lines-

Code:

<?php // Load XML $url = "http://184.173.18.228/api/profile/1000/0/Adam.Adams"; $string = file_get_contents($url); $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($string);  // Get the entries $entries = $xml->entry;  foreach($entries as $e){     // Get each entriy's id     $id = $e->id;     // Get the attributes     // ID is in the "im" namespace     $attr = $id->attributes('im', TRUE);     // echo id     echo $attr['id'].'<br/>'; } ?>

a few version of this btw

Im getting the feeling that the API a dev guy gave me is bad

any help is appreciated
R

January 26th, 2013, 02:17 AM

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The site does some sort of content type negotiation: your browser would rather see XML so it sends XML, but without that indication it sends JSON by default.

So forget XML and use

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 $json = json_decode($string);

January 26th, 2013, 10:33 AM

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very interesting - thanks - Ill give it a try today - you rock!

January 26th, 2013, 11:19 AM

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can you point me to a page that has an example of decoding an api like my example? seems liek every example is using an array instead

thanks a million

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January 26th, 2013, 02:43 PM

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json_decode decodes the response and turns it into an array. If you don't know the format of the array, use the var_dump function on it.

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January 26th, 2013, 02:47 PM

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I think I got it! thsi code shoots output - the output Ive been waiting for - any idea how to slap it onto a page that I can style? - it outputs what looks like to me an array - I need that array into something I can format

Code:

<?php     $url="http://184.173.18.228/api/profile/1000/0/Adam.Adams";     $json = file_get_contents($url,0,null,null);     $json_output = json_decode($json);      echo '<pre>';       print_r("query results:");       print_r($json_output);      '</pre>';     foreach ( $json_output->data->items as $data ){     echo "{$data->id}";     echo "{$data->title}";     }     ?>

thanks for help in advance

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January 26th, 2013, 03:19 PM

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thanks! var dump - yeah, been seeing that

if you can see this page http://callison.netau.net/proxy4.php that is what I managed to produce

so I can see the array ( that is an array correct?)

thanks for you help

R

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