API Example

Get a list of a walker's groups, group descriptions and averages

Fetch walker's groups
parse XML
API requests
- http://walkertracker.com/api/ben.xml/groups

View the example - enter a username:

<?php	
//This function fetches data from Walker Tracker API using CURL
function wt_api_request($username,$data_format,$method,$date_range="")
{
	$api_url = "http://walkertracker.com/api/";
	$api_request = $api_url . $username . "." . $data_format ."/".$method;
	if($date_range !="")
	{
		$api_request .= "/" . $date_range;
	}

$ch = curl_init();
	$timeout = 10; // set to zero for no timeout
	curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $api_request);
	curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
	$curl_contents = @(curl_exec($ch));
	curl_close($ch);
	
	return $curl_contents;
}	
	
//Using php function above, wt_api_request
//get all groups data for this user, in xml
$groups_data = wt_api_request(ben,"xml","groups");

if(strstr($groups_data,"xml"))
{

$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($groups_data); 
 
 //check to see if an error was returned
 if($xml->error)
 {
 echo " ERROR: ";
 echo $xml->error;
 exit;
 }

$n = count($xml->walker->group);
 $i=0;
 while ($i<$n) 
 {
 foreach ($xml->walker->group[$i] as $key => $value) {
 if($key=="name"){ echo "Group Name: $value ";}
 if($key=="description"){ echo "Description: $value ";}
 if($key=="number_of_members"){ echo "Number of Members: $value ";}
 if($key=="average"){ echo "Average: $value ";}

}
 echo " ";
 $i++;
 }
 
}	
?>

Walker Tracker API Documentation

API Example

Get a list of a walker's groups, group descriptions and averages