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Consume third party REST API Services

Hi All,

I need some guidance on how to consume 3rd party REST API services. Are there any examples availble? eg. consuming a twitter API service?

If anybody can point me in the right direction I would appreciate it.

Thanks!



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For consume any 3rd party REST API you can use Guzzle.
https://packagist.org/packages/guzzle/guzzle

Here is example by Lorna Jane
http://www.lornajane.net/posts/2013/twitter-search-api-using-php-and-guzzle



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Thanks, I will check it out.

Regards

C



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I cant get Guzzle to work, I followed the instructions but keep on getting :

Fatal error: Class 'Guzzle\Http\Client' not found in C:\localhost\tutorial\app\controllers\IndexController.php on line 12

I even updated composer after editing the composer.json file.

Any ideas?



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You either need to bypass the Phalcon autoloader explicitely by include()-ing or require()-ing the Guzzle file, or configure the auto-loader to know where to look.



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Thanks quasipickle, this worked for me. I had to require() the vendor/autoloader.php file in my index.php and it worked.



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Use :

  • Guzzle - A comprehensive HTTP client.
  • Buzz - Another HTTP client.
  • Requests - A simple HTTP library.
  • HTTPFul - A chainable HTTP client.
  • Goutte - A simple web scraper.

https://github.com/lorien/awesome-web-scraping/blob/master/php.md#web-scraping-frameworks