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IanMcEvoy

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Trying to retrieve information from an API and display it in a table. 
 
<form action="dublinbus.php" method="get">
<h2>Current Dublin Bus Times.</h2>
<b>Stop Number: </b><input type="number" name="stopid"></br></br>
<input type="submit">
</form>
 
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<?php
  $stopID = $_GET['stopid'];
  $url = "https://data.dublinked.ie/cgi-bin/rtpi/realtimebusinformation?stopid=" . $_GET['stopid'] . "&format=json";
 
  // Process the JSON and check for errors
  $json = file_get_contents($url);
  $array = json_decode($json,true);
 
 if ($stopID != $array["stopid"]) {
// Get the values for $errorCode and $errorMessage
$errorCode = $array["errorcode"];
$errorMessage = $array["errormessage"];
 
  echo "Error: ";
  echo $errorCode;
  echo $errorMessage;
 
  } else {
// Get the values
$duetime = $array["duetime"];
$destination = $array["destination"];
$route = $array["route"];
 
echo " <table>";
echo "   <th>Stop Number</th><th>Route</th><th>Due Time</th><th>Destination</th>";
echo "   <tr><td>" . $stopID . "</td><td>" . $route . "</td><td>" . $duetime . "</td><td>" . $destination . "</td></tr>";
echo "</table>"; 
 
 
  }
 
  ?>

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You have several undefined index errors. If you turn on error reporting you would know exactly what is wrong. When I fixed those, it works fine with stop id 11

<?php

    $_GET['stopid'] = 11; // Benanamen Mod

    $url = "https://data.dublinked.ie/cgi-bin/rtpi/realtimebusinformation?stopid=" . $_GET['stopid'] . "&format=json";

    // Process the JSON and check for errors
    $json = file_get_contents($url);
    $array = json_decode($json,true);

echo "<pre>";
print_r($array);
echo "</pre>";
die;
Edited by benanamen
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vague comments about not having any luck with something don't tell us anything useful. there are varying levels of luck and unless we know what your standard is, we don't know what result you are getting. communicate exactly what is happening and if it's not blatantly obvious what's wrong with the result, tell us what's wrong with the result and what result you expected.

 

do you have php's error_reporting set to E_ALL and display_errors set to ON (preferably in the php.ini on your development system) so that php would help you by reporting and displaying all the errors it detects? by default, you cannot use a URL with file_get_contents(), and there would be a php error alerting you to this issue.

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