Question

I’m trying to build a little script that would let me do this:

http://example.com/appicons.php?id=284417350

and then display this in plain text

http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/005/Purple/2c/a0/b7/mzl.msucaqmg.png

This is the API query to get that information (artworkUrl512):

http://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStoreServices.woa/wa/wsLookup?id=284417350

Any help and example code would be much appreciated!

Answer 1

I am not sure why you have jQuery in your tags, unless you want to make the request dynamically without a page refresh. However you can do this simply in PHP using the following example:

$request            = array (
    "app_id"        => @$_GET["id"]
);
// parse the requests.
if (empty($request["app_id"])) {
    // redirects back / displays error
}
else {
    $app_uri    = "http://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStoreServices.woa/wa/wsLookup?id=" . $request["app_id"];
    $data       = file_get_contents ($app_uri);
    $json       = json_decode (trim($data));
    print($json->results[0]->artworkUrl100);
}