I've made a curl request. I put the curl instructions in one class function:
class Curly {
var $data;
function GetRequest($url) {
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$this->data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
//this is what i was missing --> return $this->data;
}
I put the database query in another class function.
include('class.curly.php');
class mongoSearchForInfoOnEsd {
public function getEsdsFbInfo($esdID) {
$mongoApiKey = "xx";
$requestParams= "xx";
$url = "xx";
$fbInfo = (new Curly)->GetRequest($url);
//this is what i was missing --> return $fbInfo;
}
In the index.php, an HTTP post from a webhook is coming through, in which parsing through some strings to obtain 2 ids is handled. I then send one of those ids to the mongodb curl request, everything goes good. The correct response comes back, I only know this b/c of the var_dump of the var_dump in the curly class....BUT in the index file I'm struggling to get to get the data out of the var and assign its values to any variable I want.
How can I get the data out? I know its there, but where? I'm so stuck.
# get ytID from http post
#get EsdID from http post
$httpPostData = file_get_contents('php://input');
$postDataDecoded = urldecode($httpPostData);
$ytID = substr($postDataDecoded, strpos($postDataDecoded, "docid=") + strlen("docid="), );
$esdID = substr($postDataDecoded, strpos($postDataDecoded, "m\": \"") + strlen ("m\": "),;
*$esdData = (new mongoSearchForInfoOnEsd)->getEsdsFbInfo("$esdID");*
$obj = json_decode($esdData, true);
echo $obj;
OK, I've added return and I can see the data, but no operations are working on returned data.
edit ---> put return in both classes, now its fully operational.