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Posted by psuwebmasters on 02/08/07 17:01
On Feb 8, 10:03 am, "psuwebmasters" <psuwebmast...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I guess I'm just wondering where to start at. I can get as far as
> making the URI that needs to be queried, but then returning the
> results is where I am a little stuck at. I was thinking something
> like:
>
> $isbn = $_GET["query"];
> $key = "XXXXXXXX";
> $link = "http://isbndb.com/api/books.xml?access_key=" . $key .
> "&index1=isbn&value1=" . $isbn;
> $xml = @simplexml_load_file($link) or die ("no file loaded") ;
>
> I don't know if that'd be right or not, but I do know that if it is,
> I'm not sure how to make sure that data gets returned to the OneBox.
> The idea seems simple enough, but I fear I might be just a tad in over
> my head.
>
> On Feb 8, 9:41 am, Rik <luiheidsgoe...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > psuwebmasters <psuwebmast...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I am doing some work developing a OneBox for a Google Mini. All I
> > > need to do is take a $_GET values from the Mini (in this case,
> > > specifically "query"), format it into a URI to pass off to another
> > > script, get the results from that script in XML, and hand that XML
> > > back off to the Mini. So basically it acts as a go-between, and
> > > simple translator for the initial request.
>
> > > So, the OneBox sends a request like:
> > >http://www.website.com/isbn.php?query=0123456789
>
> > > The script turns that into:
> > >http://isbndb.com/api/books.xml?access_key=XXXXXXXX&index1=isbn&value...
>
> > > Then it gets the XML from that and just returns it to the OneBox as
> > > is.
>
> > > This is my first dive into some actual PHP development work, so I'm
> > > having a slow time getting any real traction to start out, but I
> > > figure if I can get this rolling, it won't be hard to flesh out.
>
> > I did not see a question?
>
> > <?php
> > readfile('http://isbndb.com/api/books.xml?access_key=XXXXXXXX&index1=isbn&value...['query']);
> > ?>
> > --
> > Rik Wasmus
http://www.pastebin.ca/345566
That looks like it works. The server I was working on wasn't PHP5, it
was 4.4.4, which explained why it didn't show up with anything. That
code seems to check out well though. Thanks for the advice.
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