PHP SDK

You can access the MTA Web Interface from almost any programming language that can request web pages using HTTP POST and encode and decode JSON.

PHP can do this very easily! This SDK provides one function "callFunction" that will allow you to call any exported script functions on any server that you have access to.

The download below includes two example pages - one that shows a simple scoreboard, the other that shows the automatic handling of element and resource objects.

Functions

callFunction

Syntax:

[php]
$mtaSDK = new mta();
$returns[] = $mtaSDK->callFunction( $hostname, $port, "resourceName", "functionName" [,args...]);

Examples

[php]
include( "mta_sdk.php" );
$mtaSDK = new mta();
$retn = $mtaSDK->callFunction( "bastage.student.utwente.nl", 33004, "echobot", "getThisResource" ); // $retn is an array containing the values the function returned
$resource = $retn[0]; // the first returned value is the resource
$retn = $mtaSDK->callFunction( "bastage.student.utwente.nl", 33004, "echobot", "getResourceName", $resource ); 
$resourceName = $retn[0]; // contains the name of the resource 'echobot'

Authentication

If the server you are accessing requires authentication, you must pass the http_username and http_password variables to your instantiated instance of the mta() class.

Example:

[php]
include( "mta_sdk.php" );
$mtaSDK = new mta();
$mtaSDK->http_username = "myUsername";
$mtaSDK->http_password = "myPassword";
$mtaSDK->callFunction( "myServer", 33004, "someResource", "someFunction" );

Caveats

• This only works with PHP 5.0 and above.
• You cannot currently compare two Resource or Element instances that you expect to be identical - you need to do a "deep compare", comparing either the "id" fields or the "name" fields.

Download

• Download Version 0.2 - Adds authentication support
• Download Version 0.1 - Deprecated - Syntax differs from examples shown above.