Hi,

I've tried for quite a few hours to implement the Fatsecret api with PHP. I
haven't succeeded yet.
That's why I came here. Does someone have a basic implementation of lets
say.. the foods.search function?
There's no need for deep integration. My plan is to make a sidebar widget
where people can search for a food item.
Does anyone have an example?

Thank you for your time and help!

I'm about to embark on a very similar project, Jeremy, and wondered if
you'd had any luck or response on this that you might be willing to share
before I begin. :)

Thanks!

Jeremy and Kristina

Try this:

<?php
$consumer_key = "123456789101112";
$secret_key = "123456789101112";
//Signature Base String
//<HTTP Method>&<Request URL>&<Normalized Parameters>
$base = rawurlencode("GET")."&";
$base .= "http%3A%2F%2Fplatform.fatsecret.com%2Frest%2Fserver.api&";

//sort params by abc....necessary to build a correct unique signature
$params = "method=foods.search&";
$params .= "oauth_consumer_key=$consumer_key&"; // ur consumer key
$params .= "oauth_nonce=123&";
$params .= "oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1&";
$params .= "oauth_timestamp=".time()."&";
$params .= "oauth_version=1.0&";
$params .= "search_expression=apple";
$params2 = rawurlencode($params);
$base .= $params2;

//encrypt it!
$sig= base64_encode(hash_hmac('sha1', $base, "$secret_key&", true)); //
replace xxx with Consumer Secret

//now get the search results and write them down
$url =
"http://platform.fatsecret.com/rest/server.api?".$params."&oauth_signature=".rawurlencode($sig);

//$food_feed = file_get_contents($url);
list($output,$error,$info) = loadFoods($url);
echo '<pre>';
if($error == 0){
    if($info['http_code'] == '200')
        echo $output;
    else
        die('Status INFO : '.$info['http_code']);

function loadFoods($url)
{

        // create curl resource
        $ch = curl_init();

        // set url
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

        //return the transfer as a string
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

        // $output contains the output string
        $output = curl_exec($ch);

        $error = curl_error($ch);

        $info = curl_getinfo($ch);
        // close curl resource to free up system resources
        curl_close($ch);

        return array($output,$error,$info);