It creates an API object, and a Parser object. The first gets the forums list in JSON format, the second the extracts all forums to create the initial empty div's. A static method to a decorator function is passed, which adds the actual markup. The Parser and Decorator classes are in the zip file, so I won't discuss those here.

If you want to see the result, go here.

Any question, remarks, etc. are welcome.

For some reason I'm not seeing my attached file, you can download the zip file.

include 'DwApiBase.class.php';
include 'DwApiOpen.class.php';

$dwapi = new DwApiOpen();

$result = $dwapi->GetMemberActivityPoints(94719);
$result = $dwapi->GetMemberEndorsements(94719);
$result = $dwapi->GetMemberReputationComments(94719);
$result = $dwapi->SearchArticles('daniweb-api');
$result = $dwapi->SearchMembers('pritaeas');

Open to suggestions, questions, etc.

DATA RETRIEVAL & SETTING

non-OAuth

• forums
• articles
• posts
• members
• activity points
• endorsements
• reputation

OAuth (requires client_id and secret key)

• who am i? (me - more data than from non-OAuth members)
• articles (expansion of non-OAuth articles)
• watched articles (watch and unwatch)
• voting on posts (upvote and downvote)
• PMs (currently inactive)

Direct URL retrieval

• getLink

RSS

• get data for RSS

This is in no way 'production'-standard code. It is intended for picking apart in order to build your own solutions, e.g. if you intend on using the API or entering the API contest. NB - there is very poor error checking / no exception handling.

Also check out pritaeas' class(es).

USAGE

non-OAuth

require 'dwapi.class.php';
$dw = new dwAPI;

echo $dw->getForums(); //echo json output of all forums
echo $dw->getForums(false,17) //echo data about the PHP (#17) forum
echo $dw->getList('http://www.daniweb.com/api/members/1/posts?filter=solved'); // get direct url data. NO CHECKS!

OAuth

//set $client_id and $client_secret
require 'dwapi.class.php';
$dw = new dwAPI($client_id, $client_secret);
echo $dw->getMe(); //get my data

RSS

require 'dwapi.class.php';
$dw = new dwAPI;

echo $dw->formatFeed($dw->getRSS(17),5); //echo first 5 links from PHP (#17) 

Hope it helps. Oh, and as always, please feel free to point out errors, improvements and any daft implementations. diafol :)

This example is a mashup of diafol's class, Dani's parsing code and my class.

It uses diafol's dwAPI class to retrieve a list of all forums, loops through them, and uses my Rss class to get the respective RSS feeds. It will show each forum in a separate div (with Dani's code) with it's title and no more than the five latest posts. The div will be omitted if there are no posts. (@Dani: some feeds give a parse error, and that's shown instead.)

You can try it yourself. Note that looping through all the forums takes some time, that's why the set_time_limit(0) was included. If you want to see the result, look here.

So thats what i did and i thought i might share the script with you it's a bit messy but it works.

Here is how t use it:
1. Goto https://www.facebook.com/developers and login.
2. Click "Create New App".
3. Enter an app name i've used "NewsFeed" make sure it's valid then leave app namespace blank and web hosting un-ticked then click "Continue".
4. Then copy and paste the script:

Then to get your access token goto https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=PUT_APP_ID_HERE&client_secret=PUT_APP_SECRET_HERE

I hope you found this tutorial easy to follow, but if you have any question just leave a comment below and i will get back to you.

This class has now been updated and posted here: http://www.daniweb.com/web-development/php/code/451674/all-in-one-daniweb-api-class#

ORIGINAL POST

This code can be used to retrieve a forum list with various options with regard to display. This class could be extended for articles, posts, etc etc.

The retrieval methods include file_get_contents() and cURL. The constructor allows manually setting the method or allowing php to determine whether a retrieval method is available.

The call to retrieve data is pretty simple, for example:

//CLIENT CODE
require 'dwapi.class.php';  
$dw = new dwAPI;
echo $dw->getForums();

Alternatively if you needed more specific output, the getForums() method takes 3 optional params:

1) (bool) 'include self' default = false
2) (mixed) 'forum list' default = false [can be: array e.g. array(1,3,4); string e.g. '1,3,4'; int e.g. 4]
3) (string) 'relatives' default = false [can be 'children'|'descendants'|'ancestors']

e.g.1

require 'dwapi.class.php';  
$dw = new dwAPI;
echo $dw->getForums(false,'1,3,4'); //get details for forums 1,3 and 4

e.g.2

require 'dwapi.class.php';  
$dw = new dwAPI;
echo $dw->getForums(true, array(1,2), 'descendants');

The output will be in json format, but you could to the following to get php assoc array:

require 'dwapi.class.php';  
$dw = new dwAPI;
$arr = $dw->json2Array($dw->getForums(true, array(1,2), 'descendants'));

echo "<pre>";print_r($arr);echo "</pre>";

Anyhow, I'm sure seasoned OOPers will find plenty to complain about. If so, please send in your improvements.

The code snippet is a PHP class for retrieving RSS feeds from the DaniWeb website. There are two exposed methods, one for retrieving the list of predefined article types, and another to get a specific RSS feed. If you pass parameters to this method, there is a basic check to see if the forum ID is an integer and greater than zero. The article type will be checked against the predefined list.

To do

I want to combine this class later with the DaniWeb API, so it can retrieve a valid list of forum ID's to choose from. For now, I'll leave that as an exercise for you to add.

Another addition can be to add the XML parsing into the class, so it can return the result in an associative array.

Usage example

include 'Rss.class.php';

$rss = new Rss();

// Get the list of predefined article types.
$articleTypes = $rss->GetArticleTypes();

// Get the RSS feed for unanswered Hardware and Software quetions.
$feed = $rss->GetFeed(1, 'unanswered');

if ($feed)
{
    // Taken from the API documentation.
    $articles = new SimpleXMLElement($feed);
    foreach ($articles->channel->item as $article)
    {
        echo '<a href="' . $article->link . '">' . $article->title . '</a><br />';
    }
}