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Integrate RESTful API's into your ExpressionEngine 2.0 website with this Rest module. You can list Tweets, search for Digg articles, show off Flickr photographs, search YouTube for videos and interact with any open RESTful API.

Introduction

Integrate RESTful API’s into your ExpressionEngine 2.0 website with this Rest module. You can list Tweets, search for Digg articles, show off Flickr photographs, search YouTube for videos and interact with any open RESTful API.

See it in action

Usage

You can create REST requests in the backend module and reference them with Template Syntax, then loop through the returned response. Everything sent back from the API is converted into a loopable ExpressionEngine array wether its XML, JSON, Serialized data, pure PHP, CSV, RSS and Atom feeds. It will even include XML attributes as well as node values so no data is lost.

{exp:rest name=“foo”}
{some_value}<br/>
{/exp:rest}

Rest module can do more than just grab information from predefined requests. You can create REST requests on the fly:

{exp:rest url=“http://example.com/” verb=“get” format=“json” param:foo=“bar”}
{some_value}<br/>
{/exp:rest}

format defaults to “xml”
verb/method defaults to “get”
params can be added even if you call a saved request, it will merge or override params saved in the CP.

To debug a request you can add debug=“yes” to the tag.

You could use this syntax with other Template Tags and create some very dynamic flexible sites.

Changelog

1.5.3

• CSV fields wrapped with single quotes or no quotes will now work, not just those with double quotes.
• Supports v2.1.3 changing lang.rest.php to rest_lang.php.

1.5.2

• Fixed an issue with XML/RSS stripping CDATA.

1.5.1

• Avoid strtotime on unix timestamps.
• Hide errors if an invalid base is set, just returns an empty result.
• Updated Curl library for improved compatibility.

1.5.0

• Added base=”” tag so you can skip down a few levels. base=“comments,data” is useful for Facebook Graph.
• Use format=”” to any tag that should be a human readable date, no matter the format that comes from the API.

1.4.0

• Global Variables can now be passed to parameters. E.g: param:foo=”{bar}”
• Added limit=”” and offset=”” parameters to help with restricting results.
• Improved EngineHosting support, i.e no more basedir error messages.

1.3.0

• Now supports RSS and Atom feeds.
• Extra params can be added in the template tag to saved requests.
• Added debug=“yes”.
• Users running in safe mode (WHY?!) will no longer get PHP errors.

Rest Links

• Add-On Homepage/Developer Site

This entry was last updated March 29, 2011, 7:34 am.

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