How about a WebModel?
Posted on 28/5/06 by Felix Geisendörfer
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The last 2 days I've been working on a Model that would allow me to query Google Analytics so I could have a cron job e-mailing me the statistics of the Sites I track overnight. Even so I would really like to release it I decided to go and ask Google first since I could imagine reasons for them to be angry about a technology like this.
Anyway, while I'm waiting for them to respond I think it'll be alright to release one of the results of this little project, called the WebModel. It's very simple in terms of beeing able to do HTTP(s) GET's and POST's, but I still think it could be interesting for people to look at:
{
var $useTable = false;
function httpPost($url, $vars = null, $headers = null, $cookie_file = null)
{
$vars = $this->__toUrlData($vars);
$ch = curl_init();
if (! $ch)
{
return false;
}
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $vars);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,20);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,1); // follow redirects recursively
if (!empty($headers))
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
if (!empty($cookie_file))
{
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie_file);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie_file);
}
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $response;
}
function httpGet($url, $vars = null, $headers = null, $cookie_file = null)
{
if (!empty($vars))
$url = $url.'?'.$this->__toUrlData($vars);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
if (!empty($headers))
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
if (!empty($cookie_file))
{
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie_file);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie_file);
}
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, strtoupper('get'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,1);
$ret = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $ret;
}
function __toUrlData($arrayData)
{
$postData = array();
foreach ($arrayData as $key => $val)
{
array_push($postData, $key.'='.urlencode($val));
}
return join('&', $postData);
}
}
Whenever you need to work with REST Api's or want to play around with regex based Html parsing you can use this Class like this:
{
var $name = 'GoogleAnalytics';
function findAll($url, $vars = array())
{
$data = $this->$this->httpGet($url, $vars);
// Some Regex Magic to follow
return $parsedData;
}
}
Let's hope Google responds and allows me to release the Google Analytics Model since it it really is a nice piece of reverse engineering and code ; ).
--Felix aka the_undefined
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Hey Guido: Unfortunatly I don't think they would buy it ... why should they? I mean if they wanted people to do stuff like this they would provide a REST Api like they do for Google Calendar. So I would already be happy if they would allow me to release it as Open Source (MIT License of course).
Because the last thing I want to get into is one of these: "Giant Coporation sues Student"-Stories. Especially not if it's Google ; ).
--Felix
[...] How about a WebModel?: "The last 2 days I've been working on a Model that would allow me to query Google Analytics so I could have a cron job e-mailing me the statistics of the Sites I track overnight. Even so I would really like to release it I decided to go and ask Google first since I could imagine reasons for them to be angry about a technology like this. [...]
[...] I already talked about my CakePHP implementation of a Google Analytics API in some of my previous posts, and I also asked Google to clarify the legal status of such code. Almost a month has passed, and besides the initial we'll contact you about it again e-mail, I didn't hear anything from Google. [...]
Waiting for the response. Hope I will get the response very soon:-p
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cool man!
I hope Google can buy you this code ;) $$$
Waiting for the release...