Php Request

[off...@lupo-solutions.com]

Hey,

I am beginning to love your thing...but... i want to try the API. Can you post an Example on how to connect to your API via Php?

I have seen CURL, but i'm not the best at using curl...;)

Thank you!

[off...@lupo-solutions.com]

Nevermind...Got it myself:

For those who need it:

<? 

$headers = array("X-Gauges-Token: API_KEY");

$ch = curl_init(); 

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://secure.gaug.es/gauges'); 

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); 

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers); 

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 

$data = curl_exec($ch); 

curl_close($ch); 

print $data;

?>

[Emilio Silvas]

Do you happen to have an example of how you managed to put changes to the API? I am looking to create a series of PHP function to manage our account and I am working on updating information. Any help would be appreciated.

[Emilio Silvas]

This is how I updated the changes via the API (along with some simple error checking). I am also working on a (small, but growing) PHP library for accessing the Gauges API. I will post a link to it later when I am done.

<?php

$main_account_token = "YOUR_API_TOKEN";

$new_info = array("first_name" => "Emilio");

$my_new_info = $this->set_gauges_info($main_account_token, $new_info);

echo "my_new_info<pre>"; var_dump($my_new_info); echo "</pre>";

if (is_numeric($my_new_info)) {

$error = $this->gauges_api_errors($my_new_info);

echo "ERROR: ".$error."<br />";

}

public function set_gauges_info($token="",$items=array()) {

//Only one item can be changed at a time

if (($token!="") && (count($items)==1)) {

$qry_str = "";

$values = count($items);

$count = 0;

foreach($items AS $a => $b) {

$qry_str .= $a.'='.$b;

$count++;

if ($count<$values) { $qry_str .= ","; }

}

$headers = array("X-Gauges-Token: ".$token);

$ch = curl_init(); 

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://secure.gaug.es/me'); 

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); 

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers); 

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT");

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $qry_str);

$data = curl_exec($ch); 

curl_close($ch);

return json_decode($data);

}

return false;

}

public function gauges_api_errors($error=0) {

$result = "";

switch($error) {

case -1:

$result = "Token/API Client description is empty.";

break;

case -2:

$result = "1) Token/API Client description is empty, or 2) API client name error.";

break;

case -3:

$result = "API client name not present.";

break;

case -4:

$result = "API client key not present.";

break;

case -5:

$result = "Token/API Client key is empty.";

break;

default:

break;

}

return $result;

}

?>

[Emilio Silvas]

Here is a link to the Github repo I created for my API calls. I'm not likely to work on it any longer as my employer has decided to use an in-house solution. But, this might help someone else solve their problem(s).

https://github.com/esilvas/Gaug.es-PHP-API