API php help needed

Ah, he's the man to help me is he?!

I'm struggling with looping through the arrays returned but as far as I can see this is set up the same way the placebets function is and this works. I di have parameters passed in but it looks from the code that these are automatically set if not specified in this function. Really appreciate any help from those in te know on tis as I've been trying for days now trying to get this to work! :(

Thanks for taking the time to look at this Escapee, really appreciate it.

The session variable is set outside this code and is being passed through ok for my other functions so I don't think that's the problem.

I did set all the mandatory params but when I checked the function declaration it looked like these were set by default but I've added these back in now. I think it is the looping through the structures that is causing a problem. Maybe I don't need the 'result' bit but the other working functions all seem to have this in their output. I definitely need to read up a bit more on these structures but they're proving pretty tough to understand for a novice like me!

Thanks again for your suggestions, The code is still not working  but has now been updated to the following in case anyone else thinks they may be able to help:


function GetBets ($session){
    global $betfairlibrary;
   
        $betparams =  array(
        array(     
                       'betStatus' => 'MU',
                    'orderBy' => 'BET_ID',
                    'recordCount' => 100,
                    'sortOrder' => 'DESC',
                    'startRecord' => 0,

                    )
                );
   
    return $betfairlibrary->betfair_exchange_api-> betfair_get_MUbets_lite ($session,$betparams);


  $existing_bets = GetBets($session);

  foreach ($existing_bets->betLites as $betLite )
  {
    print"MUBetLite BetId  ".$betLite->betId." \n ";
  }

I am testing this over a web page andknow little about debugging either so if anyone has any tips about how I can best do this too taht would be great!

Cheers

This bit can't be right surely ?

       $betparams =  array(
        array(     
                       'betStatus' => 'MU',
                    'orderBy' => 'BET_ID',
                    'recordCount' => 100,
                    'sortOrder' => 'DESC',
                    'startRecord' => 0,

                    )
                );


I've seen some mad languages and syntax in my time but if PHP were like this then I can't see how it would've been let out of the mental hospital.

I think your best bet is to go to the PHP section of the developers forum and trawl that for some examples.



You mention that you had placebets working, if you post all the parts for that where you assign the header, session token, bet to be placed, call to placebet and how you deals with its response then I might be able to extrapolate a solution from the working bit(s).


or wait and hope someone appears tommorow who knows PHP & the api calls

didn't like this line when I posted it


$Mybets = $betfairlibrary->
betfair_exchange_api->
betfair_get_MUbets_lite($session, '' );



Join it up to one line in your code

Give up escapee, you're out of your depth.
Please, please believe me when I say I'm just joking.

Escapee when you come back on after your most recent fight to try to get some decent sleep, please could you answer the following.
As you know I'm no coder ( in fact I'm essentially computer illiterate) but when I read a book about say the Facebook founder or see the film just made, I ask myself how briliant are these types of people at writing code ?.
Are they off the wall creative, really uniquey clever individuals, or are they just in the right place at the right time with the right idea.
I can't judge any of this for myself, as the world they are involved is totally alien to me.
But to you? I would expect not.

Very pleased with this. I urge anyone to give the API a try, even if you don't have much coding experince as it's great fun!

We can all get some more sleep now :)

Thanks for the advice Zola, I reckon that'll be my next step.

Not done any Java since my uni days but I'm sure I can master it!

mcDuck, wha hey..... Bingo. [:)]


Fafh, I just managed to lose a long and wordy post on the subject you raised , At the point of finishing it, betfair forum crapped out and it disappeared.... I don't think I have the heart at the moment to do it all again, another time and thread maybe. Interesting topic though and I'd love to know more about your own personal expreiences and journey from employee to professor pat pending ( as it were ).