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yPhil
yPhil

Reputation: 8357

Implement automatic version self-check and update in a PHP script with github

Now that the code for a small RSS-reading CMS that I've done is hosted on github, I'd like it to

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2792

Answers (2)

yPhil
yPhil

Reputation: 8357

Here is what I came up with (thanks to cillosis's answer)

$commits = json_decode(file_get_contents("https://api.github.com/repos/user_name/repository_name/commits"));

$current_commit_minus1 = $commits[1]->sha;
$ref_commit = "57b75c0f8aefa5ce87c1270265cace18a2347594";

if (!strcmp($current_commit_minus1, $ref_commit))
    $moved = true;
  else
    $moved = false;

That way I don't have to maintain tags, just compare commits.

Upvotes: 4

Jeremy Harris
Jeremy Harris

Reputation: 24549

It should be possible maintaining a current version number within the script, and then comparing it to the repository using the Repositories API.

You can get repo tags with CURL like this (replace :user and :repo with your stuff):

curl http://github.com/api/v2/json/repos/show/:user/:repo/tags

You can show branches like this:

curl http://github.com/api/v2/json/repos/show/:user/:repo/branches

There is a lot of other info available in that API as well.

Once you get that, compare it to the current and procede with updating.

Upvotes: 2

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