POST /news/entry
Description
Resource URL
- http://domain/api/news/entry
- Replace domain with the nats domain
Request Method
Response Format
Authentication
Parameters
Parameters can be sent as url encoded params
- headline
- news_section_id
- publish
- type: datetime (A date string to be parsed by php strtotime, or a unix timestamp integer)
- required
- body
Example Request
Method: POST
URL: http://domain/api/news/entry
Form Data:
- headline: test Headline
- news_section_id: 1
- publish: 31 May 2019
- body: This is a news entry test
Response:
{
"success": true,
"result": "news entry added",
"entry": {
"newsid": "1",
"added": "1565382566",
"loginid": "1",
"news_section_id": "1",
"headline": "test Headline",
"body": "This is a news entry test",
"publish": "1559275200",
"news_section_name": "Announcements",
"publish_date": "2019-05-31 00:00:00",
"added_date": "2019-08-09 16:29:26"
}
}
Example Code
PHP
<?php
$headers = array( //set your username and API key here
'api-key: 44b5498dbcb481a0d00b404c0169af62',
'api-username: tmm1phrvezsbu'
);
$url = 'http://yourdomain.com'; //set your NATS URL here
$data = Array(
'headline' => 'test Headline',
'news_section_id' => 1,
'publish' => '31 May 2019',
'body' => 'This is a news entry test',
);
$request = Array(
'method' => 'POST',
'path' => 'v1/news/entry',
'data' => $data
);
/*code below is the same for (almost) every API call */
$curl = curl_init();
$url = $url.'/api/'.$request['path'];
$query = http_build_query($request['data']);
if($request['method'] == 'GET'){
//add query string parameters to the end of the url
$url = $url.'?'.$query;
}else{
//send parameters as POST fields
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $query);
if($request['method'] != 'POST'){
$headers[] ='X-HTTP-Method: '.$request['method']; //send custom request method
}
}
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$resp = curl_exec($curl);
//dumps an associative array representation of the json
var_dump(json_decode($resp, true));
// Close request to clear up some resources
curl_close($curl);
?>
