SOAP API (affjet)

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Hi, 

I have been using a website to organise data. It now offers an API to integrate the data in my own site.

The current code i have will show the data on my site as an array. 

<?php

 

defined( '_JEXEC' ) or die( 'Access Deny' ); 

 

$nameSpace = "https://secure.affjet.com/ws/api";

 

//Creating AffJet client for SOAP

$client = new SoapClient($nameSpace."?wsdl");

 

$pageNumber = 0;

//Setting up parameters

$params = array();

$params["apiKey"] = "Your-api-key";

//Value for parameters (optional)

//$params["networkId"] = array(1,2);

//$params["merchantId"] = array(1,2);

//$params["startDate"] = "2013-12-01 00:00:00";

//$params["endDate"] = "2013-12-30 23:59:59";

//$params["pageNumber"] = 0;

//$params["pageSize"] = 3;

//Making Request

$response = $client->getTransactions($params);

//XML to SimpleXMLElement Object

$xmlResponse = new SimpleXMLElement($response);

if ($xmlResponse->success == "true"){

    while (isset($xmlResponse->dataList->data)) {

        //Iterate the results

        foreach ($xmlResponse->dataList->data as $data){

            var_dump(xml2array($data));

        }

        //Requesting next page of data

        $pageNumber++;

        $params["pageNumber"] = $pageNumber;

        //Making Request

        $response = $client->getTransactions($params);

        //XML to SimpleXMLElement Object

        $xmlResponse = new SimpleXMLElement($response);

    }

} else {

    //Error somewhere

    echo $xmlResponse->errorMessage;

}

     

/**

* Transforms the object SimpleXmlElement into an array, easier to handle

*/

function xml2array($xml) {

   $arr = array();

    foreach ($xml as $element) {

        $tag = $element->getName();

        $e = get_object_vars($element);

        if (!empty($e)) {

            $arr[$tag] = $element instanceof SimpleXMLElement ? xml2array($element) : $e;

        } else {

               $arr[$tag] = trim($element);

        }

    }

    return $arr;

 }

?>

I was wondering if i could get some advise on implementing this on a joomla site?

Any guidance would be great.

Cheers

H

also

The api data changes once a day so rather than call this site every time I load a page, would it be best to somehow store the data and only get/update this information once a day? 

[Allon Moritz]

Use caching to save your xml data http://docs.joomla.org/Using_caching_to_speed_up_your_code

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[Sam Coult]

Do yourself a favour and check out the docs for SoapClient with a fine tooth comb.  There are some absolutely essential hidden settings, such as SOAP_SINGLE_ELEMENT_ARRAYS that will save you a lot of hair pulling.

$myOptions = array(

    'features' => SOAP_SINGLE_ELEMENT_ARRAYS

);

$client = new SoapClient($myWsdl, $myOptions)

I would also advise caching your wsdl, which is easy to configure in either your php.ini or using ini_set (probably not during development but definitely in production, otherwise you will be requesting the wsdl for each service call): 

$ttl = 86400; //1 day

ini_set('soap.wsdl_cache_enabled',1);

ini_set('soap.wsdl_cache_ttl',$wsdl_ttl);

//And you might want to set some timeout values, high or low depending on your requirements

ini_set('default_socket_timeout', 10);

ini_set('max_execution_time', 10);