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PHP API Questions

Author	Message
April 30, 2010 - 10:40am
Persis Careers User	I have been working on a php interface and have a couple of questions/comments. It is unclear how to add more than one column to the display_column or to add more than one filter to the filter parameters. I have been able to add one but the expected string input does not seem to work with delimiters. Actually I would have expected an array. Also, the show_columns seems to be backwards. When I set it to 1, I get regular result rows. When I leave it empty or set it to zero I get the column names. I was able to fix the ssl (curl) issue and am now ready to work on the interface. Any help would be beneficial. Thanks, Scott
April 30, 2010 - 6:27pm
Andrew Kandels Official Representative	The poster of the following message is an official representative of CATS. For parameters like 'display_columns' that can take multiple values, you need to use a normalized HTTP array. Here's an example: catsone.com/api/something?display_column[]=one&display_column[]=two&display_column[]=three I'm not sure on your second issue, I've tested show_columns with 1 as you did and it's appearing correctly for me. Here's what that setting means, in case there's a misunderstanding of the definition: When show_columns is set to true, then the result set is metadata about the columns (first_name, last_name, etc.). Metadata would include the column title, id, type, etc.. Think of it as a regular SQL query result that has been rotated -90 degrees so the columns actually become the rows, or a "DESCRIBE table" query. When show_columns is not set, the row data is returned, encapsulated in elements named after the column ids.