Webbing Wednesdays Week #9
This webbing Wednesday, Techtic Solutions have come up with another interesting topic of API. Well, lot of times, working on the website, or rather bridging the website with some other source of information or bridging the website with some other website requires some sort of a interfact between the two. Website works on an application layer of the IP Protocol and hence the application programming interface is a necessity for such requirements. We call them API in regular terms. This is the simplest and most generic definition of any API.
Does it mean that the API is very tough to create or takes too much efforts to build one for any given usage? Well there are few simple steps to build a basic API.
$recipe); } $output = json_encode(array('posts' => $recipes)); } elseif($format == 'xml') { header('Content-type: text/xml'); $output = "n"; $output .= "n"; for($i = 0 ; $i < mysql_num_rows($result) ; $i++) { $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result); $output .= " n"; $output .= "<post_id>" . $row['post_id'] . " n"; $output .= "<post_name>" . $row['post_name'] . " n"; $output .= "<post_poster>" . $row['post_poster'] . " n"; $output .= "<post_quick_info>" . $row['post_quick_info'] . " n"; $output .= "<post_link>" . $row['post_link'] . " n"; $output .= " n"; } $output .= ""; } else { die('Improper response format.'); } //Output the output. echo $output; } ?>
Its true that API creation is not an overnight process and needs indepth knowledge regarding certain programming skills. Certainly, if you are building an API in PHP you have to know XML, JSON and CURL, because the responses that are received from the API are in XML JSON or string format. The request for requesting the information can be passed through CURL, which returns the response in string format.
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Security is one of the major aspects of API as it is an interface with possibility to get connected to a huge chunk of data, which everyone should not be allowed to pull data from. For this reason for creating an API it is important to create an API_KEY, username and password. These are the parameters using which the user will be authenticated by the API for having the connection to the data. You can also set unique token for each request.
Google Maps APIs lets developers embed Google Maps on WebPages using a JavaScript interface which is an API.
Embedding Youtube channels or some other YouTube live streaming can be integrated with the websites using the correct set of API usage provided by YouTube.
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Twitter offers two APIs. The REST API allows developers to access core Twitter data and the Search API provides methods for developers to interact with Twitter Search and trends data.
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