Can I create an associative array in a plugin?
Development and Programming
So I’m relatively new to PHP, and definitely new to OOP. I’d love some help here!
I’m trying to use CURL to retrieve an XML document from another piece of software running on the server, and I think a plugin will be sufficient for this. I’m using the CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS option below to include the necessary information for authentication, etc.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postfields);$postfields is an array, and in a normal PHP doc, I’d just include this:
$postfields["username"] = "XXXXXXXX"; // API username
$postfields["password"] = "XXXXXXXX"; // API password
$postfields["responsetype"] = "xml";However, it doesn’t look like I can create an associative array inside the plugin’s class, can I? Could anyone shed some light on this?
Sure you can use an associative array in the class. What does your plugin look like so far?
Well I found this on Stack Overflow, but I’m not sure it’s what I need to be doing. Is it?
My plugin, at this moment, is pretty much scrambled bits of code. Basically, I need to set the variables (seen in the second code block above) so that they can be used as an array in the CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS option (seen in the first block of code).
Ok, wait a second. Is it really just as easy as this?
var $postfields = array(
'username'=>'XXXXX', // Admin username
'password'=>'md5("XXXXXX")', // Admin password
'responsetype'=>'xml'
);Nope, it’s borking on the md5 part.
Nope, it’s borking on the md5 part.
That’s because you’ve wrapped the PHP function in quotes.
var $postfields = array(
'username'=>'XXXXX', // Admin username
'password'=>md5("XXXXXX"), // Admin password
'responsetype'=>'xml'
);Ok, wait a second. Is it really just as easy as this?
And yes, it really is that easy to use an array inside a Class. If you want to post your plugin code it might be easier to make comments or suggestions in context 😊