17 Jan
VIN API – PHP and XML Parsing
Thanks go to Michael for sharing his hard work with the rest of you VIN API and PHP developers 🙂
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| <? | |
| // VIN API decoder for PHP 4.x+ | |
| define('ELEMENT_CONTENT_ONLY', true); | |
| define('ELEMENT_PRESERVE_TAGS', false); | |
| function getXML($vin) { | |
| $curl = curl_init(); | |
| curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://vinapi.skizmo.com/vins/'. $vin.'.xml'); | |
| curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/xml', 'X-VinApiKey: #YOURAPIKEYGOESHERE#')); //use your API key here | |
| curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); | |
| $result = curl_exec ($curl); | |
| curl_close ($curl); | |
| return $result; | |
| } | |
| function parseVIN($VIN) { | |
| $info = array("model", "body-style", "country", "world-region", "vin", "engine-type", "transmission", "year", "make"); //include all values you want decoded | |
| $info = sort($info); //alphabetical order | |
| foreach ($info AS $type) { | |
| $vin[$type] = parseDATA($type, $VIN); | |
| } | |
| return $vin; | |
| } | |
| function parseDATA($element_name, $xml, $content_only = true) { | |
| if ($xml == false) { | |
| return false; | |
| } | |
| $found = preg_match('#<'.$element_name.'(?:\s+[^>]+)?>(.*?)'. | |
| '</'.$element_name.'>#s', $xml, $matches); | |
| if ($found != false) { | |
| if ($content_only) { | |
| return $matches[1]; //ignore the enclosing tags | |
| } else { | |
| return $matches[0]; //return the full pattern match | |
| } | |
| } | |
| // No match found: return false. | |
| return false; | |
| } | |
| // Parse passed VIN to remove illegal characters | |
| $vin = preg_replace("/[^A-Za-z0-9.]/", "", $_GET['vin']); | |
| if(isset($_GET['vin'])) { | |
| $data = getXML($vin); | |
| $data = parseVIN($data); | |
| if ($data != false) { | |
| foreach ($data AS $key => $value) { | |
| echo ucfirst($key) . ": " . $value . "<br />"; | |
| } // outputs each XML node available | |
| } else { | |
| echo "VIN did not return any data."; | |
| } | |
| } | |
| ?> |
