Hello anyone,
I am fairly new at this. I am using a variation on zerok's code, and I now want to grab an image and display it. However, I can't get it to work. I think I may need to use simplexml_load_file() instead of simplexml_load_string() but using the ...file() method just breaks the name and site_detail_url and doesn't display the image. Below is the code as I have it now (the code that doesn't work). Is anyone able to give me a hint as to how to parse and display an image from the API in PHP?
<?php
define('API_KEY' , 'myKey' );
$base_url = "http://api.giantbomb.com/characters/" ;
$fields = array();
$fields['field_list' ] = 'name,image,site_detail_url' ;
$fields[ 'limit'] = '10';
$fields[ 'offset'] = '165';
$fields[ 'api_key'] = API_KEY;
$url = $base_url . '?' . http_build_query($fields);
$data = file_get_contents($url);
$xml = simplexml_load_string($data);
if ( isset($xml)): ?>
<html >
<head >< title >Video Game Characters </ title ></head >
<body >
< h2 >Results: </ h2 >
<ul >
<?php foreach ($xml-> results->children() as $item): ?>
< li >
< a href=" <?php echo $item-> site_detail_url ?>" > <?php echo $item-> name ?> </ a >
< br />
< img src=" <?php echo $item-> image ?>" >
</ li >
<?php endforeach ; ?>
</ ul>
</body >
</html >
<?php endif ?>
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