API GET requests.

[Joe!]

i know this might sound really simple, but what would be the best way to retrieve information by doing a get request in php, like for example the end of the url would be something like
?account=joe&pass=xxx&action=showObjectReport

I'm pretty sure it would be using cURL, not sure how to use that though.
Cheers for the help, never really used an API before :/
Joe

[Agnostic Bear]

i know this might sound really simple, but what would be the best way to retrieve information by doing a get request in php, like for example the end of the url would be something like
?account=joe&pass=xxx&action=showObjectReport

I'm pretty sure it would be using cURL, not sure how to use that though.
Cheers for the help, never really used an API before :/
Joe

What on earth are you on about, what API and what are you trying to do?

[Blinger1]

And why would the pass be in the URL!? That's like giving the key to a prisoner and asking him not to let himself out!

[Joe!]

Reading that back, it doesn't make sense at all does it. Basically i'm trying to connect to tomtom workfleet to retrieve the location of a vehicle. It uses either HTTP requests like I said about with the url, or SOAP requests which i dont have a clue about.
I've just seen this on a website, could I use that same technique to retrieve the data?

$url = "http://piwik.org/demo/";
$url .= "?module=API&method=Referers.getKeywords";
$url .= "&idSite=1&period=month&date=yesterday";
$url .= "&format=PHP&filter_limit=20";
$url .= "&token_auth=$token_auth";
$fetched = file_get_contents($url);
$content = unserialize($fetched); 

[Joe!]

Also, this is direct from tomtom, but is in ASP, i'm essentially trying to complete the same task in PHP.

 url = "https://new.webfleet.de/extern?"
  url = url + "lang=" + Request.form("lang")
  url = url + "&account=" + Request.form("account")
  url = url + "&username=" + Request.form("username")
  url = url + "&password=" + Request.form("password")
  url = url + "&action=showObjectReportExtern"
  Set Req = Server.CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1")
  Req.Open "GET", url
  Req.Send
  Response.Write Req.ResponseText
  Set Req = nothing 

[Invent]

Also, this is direct from tomtom, but is in ASP, i'm essentially trying to complete the same task in PHP.

 url = "https://new.webfleet.de/extern?"
  url = url + "lang=" + Request.form("lang")
  url = url + "&account=" + Request.form("account")
  url = url + "&username=" + Request.form("username")
  url = url + "&password=" + Request.form("password")
  url = url + "&action=showObjectReportExtern"
  Set Req = Server.CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1")
  Req.Open "GET", url
  Req.Send
  Response.Write Req.ResponseText
  Set Req = nothing 

Something like this should work if you want to use cURL.

<?php

$parameters    = array(

    'lang'       => 'Language',
    'account'    => 'Account',
    'Password'   => 'Password',
    'action'     => 'showObjectReportExtern',

);

$curl    = curl_init();

curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://new.webfleet.de/extern?' . http_build_query( $parameters ) );
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false );
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true );
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false );
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false );

$response    = curl_exec( $curl );

curl_close( $curl );

[Joe!]

Thanks for that Invent!
Shall test it out when I can