API Issue
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2016 3:10 pm
Hi guys,
I am having a little trouble getting my head around how to tackle an issue. I am working with an API :-
https://www.photoshelter.com/developer/ ... nts/public
Connecting up to it no problem and getting the information via cURL is also no bother. The point is I am needing to loop through galleries to retrieve 400 gallery IDs so I can pass in the data I need so for example I execute my first cURL response which gives me all the gallery IDs from here :-
/psapi/v3/collection/root/children
Now then I need to run a foreach loop to get each gallery ID to pass to :-
/psapi/v3/gallery/{gallery_id}
/psapi/v3/gallery/{gallery_id}/key_image
Now the problem is I am having to use cURL to get the JSON data from here too and then finally the last one :-
/psapi/v3/gallery/{gallery_id}/images/{image_id}
To get the gallery featured image. Now the first cURL works fine but when I introduce the others in foreach loops it cripples it on loading time, but looking through of course it would as its excuting cURL a ridiculous amount of times.
Is there a better way of tackling an issue like this as I feel cURL and file_get_contents is the wrong way going about this. Normally it's one execution and I get all the data I have never worked with something like this before. I would show my code but I feel it is unnecessary at this point on the grounds of I do not think this is the most productive way of even looking at this
Currently the only thing I can think of is creating a query string to execute via a CRON job that would execute twice a day to check through the galleries API at Photoshelter and add everything to a database that I need. Is this a good way of looking at solving the issue?
Any information would be greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance
Jamie
I am having a little trouble getting my head around how to tackle an issue. I am working with an API :-
https://www.photoshelter.com/developer/ ... nts/public
Connecting up to it no problem and getting the information via cURL is also no bother. The point is I am needing to loop through galleries to retrieve 400 gallery IDs so I can pass in the data I need so for example I execute my first cURL response which gives me all the gallery IDs from here :-
/psapi/v3/collection/root/children
Now then I need to run a foreach loop to get each gallery ID to pass to :-
/psapi/v3/gallery/{gallery_id}
/psapi/v3/gallery/{gallery_id}/key_image
Now the problem is I am having to use cURL to get the JSON data from here too and then finally the last one :-
/psapi/v3/gallery/{gallery_id}/images/{image_id}
To get the gallery featured image. Now the first cURL works fine but when I introduce the others in foreach loops it cripples it on loading time, but looking through of course it would as its excuting cURL a ridiculous amount of times.
Is there a better way of tackling an issue like this as I feel cURL and file_get_contents is the wrong way going about this. Normally it's one execution and I get all the data I have never worked with something like this before. I would show my code but I feel it is unnecessary at this point on the grounds of I do not think this is the most productive way of even looking at this
Currently the only thing I can think of is creating a query string to execute via a CRON job that would execute twice a day to check through the galleries API at Photoshelter and add everything to a database that I need. Is this a good way of looking at solving the issue?
Any information would be greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance
Jamie