api

[ahmed1234550]

what is the best way to read online api data (html)

[iMostLiked]

What type of data is the api returning? JSON or plain html?
If it's plain html you could do something like this in php:

$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTML(file_get_contents($url));

foreach($dom->getElementsByTagName('tr') as $node) { ... }

If it's json then:

$result = json_decode(file_get_contents($url));
echo $result->{"test"};

Instead of file_get_contents you could also use .

[ahmed1234550]

Originally Posted by iMostLiked

What type of data is the api returning? JSON or plain html?
If it's plain html you could do something like this in php:

$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTML(file_get_contents($url));

foreach($dom->getElementsByTagName('tr') as $node) { ... }

If it's json then:

$result = json_decode(file_get_contents($url));
echo $result->{"test"};

Instead of file_get_contents you could also use .

its json, i wanna do it in html not php

[iMostLiked]

Originally Posted by ahmed1234550

its json, i wanna do it in html not php

You can't process json in html. If you don't want to do it in php you could use javascript.

[ahmed1234550]

Originally Posted by iMostLiked

You can't process json in html. If you don't want to do it in php you could use javascript.

ye but i can use different ways, like fetch ajax jquery p5js, all can do the job but someone told me i dont recommend jquery for api requests, im new i dont know the differents between them, thats why im asking what should i use

[iMostLiked]

Originally Posted by ahmed1234550

ye but i can use different ways, like fetch ajax jquery p5js, all can do the job but someone told me i dont recommend jquery for api requests, im new i dont know the differents between them, thats why im asking what should i use

It depends on what you want to do. But apart from this I'd always process api requests server sided (e.g. php) and return their output with json so that javascript can handle that.
If your goal is making a dynamic website which requests the api more than one time you have to use ajax.
If it's only one request at the beginning (when the page loads) you don't have to use javascript since php loads before the dom.

[ahmed1234550]

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