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Basic GET request from Uber's API
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<?php | |
/* Short and sweet */ | |
define('WP_USE_THEMES', false); | |
require('./wp-blog-header.php'); | |
$url = 'https://api.uber.com/v1/estimates/price'; | |
$args = array( | |
/* | |
'headers' => array( | |
'Authorization' => $some_token_goes_here | |
), | |
*/ | |
'body' => array( | |
'server_token' => 'spKIM1CliT6oUUdl4whd0Q_JFhOva9AzMplxEaR2', | |
'start_latitude' => 39.331111, | |
'start_longitude' => -76.632658, | |
'end_latitude' => 39.331111, | |
'end_longitude' => -76.632658 | |
) | |
); | |
//Send off the request to the API passing our arguments. Store the returned response as $result | |
//$result = wp_remote_get( $url, $args ); | |
//Probably should do some checks here to see if it is a valid response or if there was an error. But whatevs... | |
/* | |
While debugging we can see everything in $result by using var_dump() The <pre> tags make it look pretty in the browser. | |
echo '<pre>'; | |
var_dump( $result ); | |
echo '</pre>'; | |
*/ | |
//The result will probably come back as a string that needs to be turned into arrays/objects in PHP that we can work with | |
//$the_json = json_decode( $result['body'] ); | |
//Let's see what is in $the_json | |
//echo '<pre>'; | |
//var_dump( $the_json ); | |
//echo '</pre>'; | |
//Once you figure out what fields you actually want you can process $the_json and then do something with it like loop over each result and store parts of it in a database. | |
//See $wpdb documentation for running SQL queries to add data to a db ==> http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/wpdb | |
/* Another example */ | |
$url = 'https://www.uber.com/fares/latLngEstimate?start_latitude=19.3889059&start_longitude=-99.2518834&end_latitude=19.3969138&end_longitude=-99.18928140000003&vids[]=651&vids[]=188&vids[]=434&city=mexico_city'; | |
$args = array(); | |
$result = wp_remote_get( $url, $args ); | |
$the_json = json_decode( $result['body'] ); | |
echo '<pre>'; | |
//var_dump( $the_json ); | |
echo '</pre>'; | |
?> | |
<table> | |
<thead> | |
<tr> | |
<th>Product Name</th> | |
<th>Fare</th> | |
</tr> | |
</thead> | |
<tbody> | |
<?php foreach( $the_json->estimates as $row ): ?> | |
<tr> | |
<td><?php echo $row->vehicle_view->display_name; ?></td> | |
<td><?php echo $row->fare_string; ?></td> | |
</tr> | |
<?php endforeach; ?> | |
</tbody> | |
</table> |
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