vBulletin 4.1 Mobile API

[Jamesy]

Anyone had a play on this yet? It's been distracting me for a few days learning it now that the documentation has been released.

I've managed to whip this up. Probably not the most elegant code but it works for testing things:

    // Api Key - generated from: admincp/api.php
    $Apikey = "";

    // Insert the parameters to build the API on: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/content.php?366-REST-Server-Specific-Methods
    $Api_InitParams = array("clientname" => 'apitest', "clientversion" => '1', "platformname" => 'PHP', "platformversion" => '5', "uniqueid" => $Apikey);
    ksort($Api_InitParams);
    $Api_InitParams = http_build_query($Api_InitParams, '', '&');

    $Api_Url = "http://localhost/api.php?api_m=api_init&{$Api_InitParams}";
    $vBInfo= json_decode(file_get_contents($Api_Url), true);

    // Build Common Array
    $ApiParamsArray = array("api_c" => $vBInfo['apiclientid'], "api_s" => $vBInfo['apiaccesstoken'], "api_v" => $vBInfo['apiversion']);
    ksort($ApiParamsArray);
    $ApiParams = http_build_query($ApiParamsArray, '', '&'); 

So to get user data for example, include the above and:

    // Include the API Data
    require_once("api_init.php");

    // Get Member info into an array and format for Sign
    $UserParamsArray = array("api_m" => "member", "username" => $_GET['username']);
    $UserParams = http_build_query($UserParamsArray, '', '&');
    
    // Format full URL Structure
    $UserUrlStructure = array_merge($UserParamsArray, $ApiParamsArray);
    ksort($UserUrlStructure);
    $UserUrlStructure = http_build_query($UserUrlStructure, '', '&');
    
    //Generate the API Sign
    $Sign = md5($UserParams.$vBInfo['apiaccesstoken'].$vBInfo['apiclientid'].$vBInfo['secret'] . $Apikey);
    
    //Generate the URL String
    $UserUrl = $vBInfo['bburl'] . "api.php?" . $UserUrlStructure . "&api_sig=" . $Sign;
    // Get the Data
    $UserData = json_decode(file_get_contents($UserUrl), 1); 

You're supposed to check the sign on the response but I've forgotten to do that. I got confused by how to sign the api calls at first, it's essentially this:

$Sign = md5($UserParams.$vBInfo['apiaccesstoken'].$vBInfo['apiclientid'].$vBInfo['secret'] . $Apikey); 

I've not really played much more than basic things that could be done without using the API, it's still fun to learn though .

[Tom]

I've not really checked it out. Nice coding btw I'll check it out soon, maybe drift away like you did for a while