Ruscona - Shine

Let's take a test url, for example (the number in the url is the user ID):

http://rusconashine.com/de/user-feed/229

If we call this url, for example in a browser, we get a json response with the user's posts.

The structure will look like this:

[
    {
        "post":{
            "created":{
                "date": string,
                "time": string
            },
            "text": string,
            "url": string,
            "image": string,
            "likeCount": int,
            "commentCount":int,
            "hasMethod": bool
        },
        "user":{
            "avatar": string,
            "url": string,
            "nick": string
        }
    }
]
                

Contains an array of objects, where each object is one post detail.

The object has two parts, content information and user information.

I'll describe on the list

• post - information about the post
  • created - date of post created
    • date - first part of date (for example 02.05.2022)
    • time - second part of date (for example 11:25:56)
  • text - post descriptions
  • url - post url
  • image - post image url
  • likeCount - number of likes on this post
  • commentCount - number of comments on this post
  • hasMethod - if it contains a solution procedure
• user - information about the user
  • avatar - avatar url
  • url - user detail url
  • nick - user nickname

Now there is nothing stopping us from implementing our feed anywhere on the web.

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Processing in PHP is very simple. For example, we can read the resulting json using file_get_contents and then convert it to an object or array using the json_decode function.
We can do this easily, for example as follows:

// load url from server with json
$json = file_get_contents($url);
// parse json to array
$obj = json_decode($json, true);
                    

Now we have the entire result array in the obj variable and we can just write it out, using iteration.

The result may then look like this:

The whole code in PHP can then be written like this:

function processFeed(string $url): array
{
    // load url from server with json
    $json = file_get_contents($url);
    // parse json to array
    $obj = json_decode($json, true);

    // create html template
    $tpl = '<div class="sample">
                <a href="{user.url}" target="_blank"><strong<{user.nick}<strong/<</a>
                        <span>{post.created.date} {post.created.time}</span>
                        <img src="{post.image}">
                <p>{post.text}</p>
                        <a target="_blank" href="{post.url}">post detail</a>
            </div>';

    $finalArray = [];
    // iterate array with posts
    foreach ($obj as $posts) {
        // process array to make variables
        $data = processFeedArray($posts);
        $item = $tpl;
        // replace in template
        foreach ($data as $key => $value) {
            $item = str_replace('{' . $key . '}', $value, $item);
        }
        $finalArray[] = $item;
        // only first 3 items
        if (count($finalArray) >= 3) {
            break;
        }
    }
    return $finalArray;
}

/**
 * @param array $array
 * @param string $keyPrefix
 * @return array
 */
public processFeedArray(array $array, string $keyPrefix = ''): array
{
    $out = [];
    // iterate array with data and prepare keys
    foreach ($array as $key => $value) {
        if (is_array($value)) {
            // call again
            $out = $out + $this->processFeedArray($value, ($keyPrefix ? $keyPrefix . '.' : '') . $key);
        } else {
            // create key
            $out[$keyPrefix . '.' . $key] = $value;
        }
    }

    return $out;
}

echo implode(processFeed('url'));