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Jay
Jay

Reputation: 91

How to fix API not returning results via GET Command using PHP

Working with the who is my representative API (whoismyrepresentative.com ) and the get command doesn't render the results from an input field on the index page asking for a zipcode. Is the syntax incorrect, do I need to echo the command?

Index page I created:

<section class="form-one">

<form action="search-results.php" method="post">
<label for="zipcode"> Input Zipcode</label>
<input id="zipcode" type="number" name="zip" size="5">
<input type="submit" name="">

</form>
</section>

Search-Results.php page where i call the GET Command:

<?php

file_get_contents('https://whoismyrepresentative.com/getall_mems.php?zip=&output=json'.$_GET['zip'].'php?zip=&output=json …');

/*echo $_GET["https://whoismyrepresentative.com/getall_mems.php?zip=&output=json …"];*/

?>

The command should output json.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 99

Answers (4)

sanu
sanu

Reputation: 548

Use php cURL

<?php

   $ch = curl_init('https://whoismyrepresentative.com/getall_mems.php?zip=' . $_POST['zip']);
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "GET");
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
      'Accept: application/json'
   );
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5);
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);

   //execute 
   $result = curl_exec($ch);

   //close connection
   curl_close($ch);

   echo $result;

?>

Upvotes: 0

Second2None
Second2None

Reputation: 1600

After looking at your live site and the API, your issue is coming down to 2 errors

To use GET you need to update your HTML form method to get - 

<section class="form-one">
    <form action="search-results.php" method="get">
        <label for="zipcode"> Input Zipcode</label>
        <input id="zipcode" type="number" name="zip" size="5">
        <input type="submit" name="">
    </form>
</section>

You also then have issues in your PHP where you are not calling the correct URL with correct parameters and are not assigning and echoing the correct response. This returns the JSON to $json_rep and decodes the json into an array $rep_array allowing you to then loop through the reps and do what you need to do.

<?php

$json_rep = file_get_contents('https://whoismyrepresentative.com/getall_mems.php?zip='.$_GET['zip'].'&output=json');
$rep_array = json_decode($json_rep);
var_dump($rep_array);

?>

Upvotes: 0

Abdur Rahman
Abdur Rahman

Reputation: 783

You set your form to make a post request. You can fix the code in two ways.

  1. Change form method to get, your existing code will work

  2. Or change the $_GET to $_POST as following

    file_get_contents('https://whoismyrepresentative.com/getall_mems.php?zip=' . $_POST['zip'] . 'php?zip=&output=json …');

Upvotes: 0

EvE
EvE

Reputation: 750

This will work:

file_get_contents('https://whoismyrepresentative.com/getall_mems.php?zip=' . $_GET['zip'] . '&output=json');

Upvotes: 1

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