Helper class for VEA interaction with PHP
You can download the code from github repo page here.
VeaApiConnect($server_url, $user, $pass, $insecure = false)Parameters
$server_url: The server URL to connect to.$user: API user.$pass: API user password.$insecure: Optional flag to ommit SSL verification. Useful for development.Return value
Returns a new instance of the VEA API Connect class.
loadLoads data from VEA API in different formats.
VeaApiConnect::load( $api_uri, $params)Parameters
$api_uri: The API URI for the request.$params: The parameters for the request.Return value
Returns the result of the API request. The format of the response depends on the extension used in the URI. The available formats are listed in the following table:
| URI Extension | Response data format |
|---|---|
pc8 |
PHP variable dump. Must be decoded using PHP eval function. |
ps8 |
PHP serialized data. Can be decoded using PHP unserialize function. |
json |
JSON. Can be decoded with PHP json_decode function. |
This function performs a CURL POST request to get the response.
Examples
Get events data in JSON:
<?php
include_once 'vea-api-connect.php';
// set connection values
$server_url = "https://venueeventartist.com";
$user = "1234";
$pass = "4d37a7c2b52723235a5d8c1554ba9a97f697922a";
// create new instance
$vea_api = new VeaApiConnect($server_url, $user, $pass);
// set request parameters
$params = array(
'venuetype' => 1017,
'marketareaid' => 446,
'eventtype' => 1100,
);
// load events data
$data = $vea_api->load("/api/v1/events/events.json", $params);
// decode JSON into associative array
$data = json_decode($data, true);
// Use the events data
foreach($data['events'] as $event) {
echo $event['name']."\n";
echo $event['date']."\n";
echo $event['descr']."\n";
}To change the format of the response to serialized PHP data, the URI extension must be changed from json to ps8 and the decoding method changes also:
$data = $vea_api->load("/api/v1/events/events.ps8", $params);
$data = unserialize($data);