What is the current best way to call a web service from WordPress

[system]

I want to do this in WordPress, but I’m struggling to figure out the best way to do it. I want to get the data back and use it to create HTML content inside wordpress…

Guidance on exactly how to call a web service from WordPress and work with the response would be a big help!

The following is how I do it in C# using a WebClient() class.

using (var wb = new WebClient())
{
var data = new NameValueCollection();
data[“api_id”] = “xxxxx”;
data[“api_key”] = “xxxxx”;
data[“location_nid”] = “x”;
data[“api_url”] = “xxxxxxx”;
data[“version”] = “x”;
data[“format”] = “XML”;
data[“dispensaryId”] = “xxxxxx”;
Uri mjUri = new Uri(“webserviceurl”);
wb.UploadValues(mjUri, “POST”, data);
var data = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(response);
}

Kind regards,
BH

[astonecipher]

See if they have a php or JavaScript example. Either way you are doing manual code.

[Valkrider]

The Wordpress Codex is the place to start. http://codex.wordpress.org/

What you will need to do is to create a custom template. This is best done in a Child Theme that way if your theme is updated you don’t lose your custom template. Then you assign your custom template to the appropriate page to display the data. |Just place your custom code in the ‘content’ area of your page template.

Below is a simple text script that I have in a page template whilst I was doing some debugging
[php]
echo “Doing query
”;
global $wpdb;
$wpdb->show_errors();
$myrows = $wpdb->get_row(“SELECT * FROM membership WHERE ID = 1” );
echo “

”; print_r($myrows); echo “

”;
echo $myrows->member;
echo “
End query template”;
[/php]

This code connects to the Wordpress database, shows any database errors, selects from the standard membership table and then echoes out the result of the query.

Hope this helps.