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Dany
Dany

Reputation: 2290

First time setting up foursquare api with php

I try to get venues by foursquare api. The steps that I tried are:

this is the code that I try to used but it didn't work:

require_once("Api_Foursquare_EpiCurl");
require_once("Api_Foursquare_EpiFoursquare");
require_once("Api_Foursquare_EpiSequence");

$fsObj = new EpiFoursquare($clientId, $clientSecret, $accessToken);
$venue = $fsObj->get('/venues/search', array('ll' => "{$myLat},{$myLng}"));

In particular I didn't understand the functionality of the callback that I set up in the registration. Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1741

Answers (2)

rICh
rICh

Reputation: 1709

I got it to work with this:

$consumer_key = 'YOURS';
$consumer_secret = 'YOURS';

//Includes the foursquare-asyc library files                                                                       
require_once('EpiCurl.php');
require_once('EpiSequence.php');
require_once('EpiFoursquare.php');

try{
  $foursquareObj = new EpiFoursquare($consumer_key, $consumer_secret);
  $venue = $foursquareObj->get('/venues/search',array('ll'=>'{your-lat},{your-long}'));
  var_dump($venue);
} catch (Execption $e) {
  //If there is a problem throw an exception                                                                       
}

dumps out expected loc data from 4Square.

I'm using January 06, 2011 vers of EpiCurl, EpiSequence, and February 25, 2011 ver of EpiFoursquare.

Upvotes: 1

Garbit
Garbit

Reputation: 6056

The call back URL is where Foursquare directs the user after they successfully authenticate with the Foursquare service. So if you're doing local development (using WAMP + php for example) set your callback address to http://localhost/YOUR_PAGE_NAME.php

So what's gonna happen is this;

  • Someone visits your page
  • Your page prompts them with a link which points to Foursquare (this link has in it your application's clientId + secret, letting foursquare know that this user wishes to subscribe to your application)
  • Foursqaure prompts the user to log in and allow the application requesting access

  • Foursquare redirects and passes a token back to the external application, this token can then be used for all subsequent requests on behalf of the user

    I hope this helps somewhat.

Although I notice you're probably using this tutorial - http://www.joesiewert.com/2010/04/how-to-use-the-foursquare-api-with-oauth-and-php/

Which is now out of date. Also I've found in the past couple of days the that Foursquare-async library is throwing errors for me too, and I don't know why. I've posted here for help; http://groups.google.com/group/foursquare-api/browse_thread/thread/cd258a78d8073f86/ed5ff3f9fed206ed#ed5ff3f9fed206ed

Andy

Upvotes: 1

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