Foursquare API integration in CakePHP 3
Foursquare offers to fetch venue details by several keywords in many categories like : Restaurants , Bars , Pubs , Museums, Movie Theaters , Clubs , Schools , Stadiums , Colleges & Universities and a lot more.
STEP BY STEP GUIDE OF INTEGRATION
1) Get List by LATITUDE LONGITUDE : First of all we need to fetch all placeids :
$obj = new Client();
$param = array(‘ll’=> “{$value->latitude},{$value->longitude}”, ‘client_id’ => $client_id, ‘client_secret’ => $client_secret, ‘v’ => “{$v}”, “categoryId” => $categoryId, “limit”=>50, “radius”=>5000,”intent”=>”browse”); $restaurant_json = $obj->get( $url, $param );
In above example, ll = Latitude, longitude categoryId = You’ll this category-id from this category endpoint . ‘client_id‘ and ‘client_secret’ = You will get this after logging in foursquare website :
HotelsPro provides the API to integrate hotels searching and booking in your project . It is JSON based Application Programming Interface (API) . It avail the facility to fetch up-to-date inventory of HotelsPro including hotels, properties, facilities, countries, destinations and regions etc, searching hotels , checking room availability , booking and cancellation etc .
These are some steps in hotelsPro API workflow:
2) VENUE (Bars) Details :
To get complete details of venue with 6 photos , location , opening hours , price , tips and many more , use this code :
Complete list of response endpoints are here : https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/responses/venue
3) Saving Venue Images :
Saving venue images is a tricky task here , there are 3 keys for a path of single image, so get the complete image by this url :
4) Get More Venue Photos :
To get more photos of a venue, simply use following endpoint : Example : https://api.foursquare.com/v2/venues/VENUE_ID/photos
This is the basic overview and workflow of FourSquare API , you can find complete documentation here : https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/ If you need any help in integration of any API , then feel free to contact us , our expert developers are always ready to help you in integration of any API or in custom web development .
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