how to call rest api from view in YII?

Question

I want to call rest API from view in YII.I know how to call it from simple PHP.

From here

But I dont know how to call it in YII manner.what is the right way to call it in YII?

Answer 1

As Yii 1.1

you've not a framework class to do the requests, but you can use Guzzle a powerfull PHP HTTP client:

• docs to REST operations
• Github guzzle

As Yii 2.0 you can use yii2-httpclient:

• github yii2-httpclient
• yii2-httpclient documentation

Answer 2

There isn't Yii way to get the data from API so you can use:

$output = file_get_contents('http://www.hpgloe.com/json/getrec/?lat=37.234&lon=-122.234');

After that you can use CJSON helper to decode the data. For example:

$response = CJSON::decode($output);