Question

As mentioned in my previous question I read about cURL and how to work with it. I got the request with the following API: api.openkvk.nl (it’s in Dutch, sadly enough) working:

$get = $_POST['bedrijfsnaam'];
$get = str_replace(" ","%20",$get);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://api.openkvk.nl/php/SELECT%20*%20FROM%20kvk%20WHERE%20bedrijfsnaam%20=%20'$get'%20LIMIT%201;");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
print("<pre>"); print_r($result); print("</pre>");
$kvks = $result[0]["RESULT"]["ROWS"][0][2];
echo $kvks; 
curl_close($ch);

and I got the results back in the following form:

array(array("RESULT"=>array("TYPES"=>array("bigint","varchar","int","int","varchar","varchar","varchar","varchar","varchar","varchar","bigint","varchar","decimal","decimal","date"),"HEADER"=>array("kvk","bedrijfsnaam","kvks","sub","adres","postcode","plaats","type","status","website","vestiging","rechtsvorm","lat_rad","lon_rad","anbi"),"ROWS"=>array(array("526937320000","Unicmedia","52693732","0","Terschellingstraat 12","1825ND","Alkmaar","Hoofdvestiging",NULL,NULL,"22611126",NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL)))))

What I want to do is the following:

Put this values from the database: kvks, adres, postcode and plaats in a form (so that I can edit them).

I don’t know how to do this. Could you give me an explanation?

PS I’m new with API’s so I don’t understand everything yet.

Answer 1

Update:

Their API is returning it as a php string – change the part of your URL which says /php/ to /json/.

Then, make it so you have $result = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);

Now the array access should work.

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To get the value of kvks, supposing the value you posted is the in $result, you’d use $kvks = $result[0]["RESULT"]["ROWS"][0][2].

(It looks like you’re posting the result of a print_r – try encasing it in <pre> tags when you display it for a much more formatted result)

Since you have PHP getting the values, you could simply output an HTML form with them prefilled:

<form action="savedata.php" method="post">
<?php
    echo "<input type='text' name='blah' value=\"" . htmlspecialchars($blah) ."\"><br>";
 ?>

Then, if $blah is asdf, this would output <input type='text' name='blah' value="asdf">.

When you submit it to your savedata.php method, you’d insert the modified values (now found through $_POST['blah']) into your database however you like.