Query chartbeat api and cache results - wordpress

Query chartbeat api and cache results - wordpress

php class for querying chartbeats api and caching the results - refresh cache every minute

 /*  
 * Check chartbeat for most read articles  
 * inside of category you are in  
 */  
 class MostReadChartbeat {  
  public $host = "yourdomain.co.uk";  
  public $chartbeat_api_key = "yourapikey_provided_by_chartbeats_in_your_panel";  
  //main object where the posts from different sections/categories will be stored  
  public $cats_posts = array();  
  /* prepare section name string for query */  
  private function get_section ( $section ) {  
   return strtolower( preg_replace( '/ / ', '+', $section) );  
  }  
  //naming convention - category (wp), section (Chartbeats)  
  private function query_posts_from_category( $section ) {  
   $chartbeat_query = 'http://api.chartbeat.com/live/toppages/v3/?apikey=' . $this->chartbeat_api_key . '&host=' . $this->host . '&section=' . $this->get_section( $section );  
   /* Query Chartbeat */  
   $chart_resp = json_decode( file( $chartbeat_query )[0] );  
   //this obj is storing posts from a certain category for caching purposes  
   $this_cat_posts = array();  
   //loop through posts result from single category  
   foreach( $chart_resp->pages as $post ) {  
    array_push($this->cats_posts, $post);  
    array_push($this_cat_posts, $post);  
   }  
   //cache the results for specified category for 1 minutes  
   //to prevent flooding chartbeat with requests  
   if (sizeof($this->cats_posts) > 0 ) {  
    set_transient( $this->get_section( $section ), $this_cat_posts, MINUTE_IN_SECONDS );  
   } else {  
    set_transient( $this->get_section( $section ), "no_posts", MINUTE_IN_SECONDS );  
   }  
  }  
  private function get_posts_from_cached_category ( $posts ) {  
   //add posts to the main category posts object  
   foreach( $posts as $post ) {  
    array_push($this->cats_posts, $post);  
   }  
  }  
  /* main method initiated after page load  
  * we pass array of categories as one post may contain several categories  
  */  
  public function get_main_posts( $cats ) {  
   foreach( $cats as $category ) {  
    //query chartbeat  
    $this->add_posts_from_category( $category->name );   
   }  
  }  
  /* method initiated in two cases:  
  * 1. on page load by "get_main_posts()"  
  * 2. for other single categories query to meet the aim of geting 10 most read posts  
  */  
  public function add_posts_from_category( $category ) {  
   /* Check if we have any data about the categories in cache  
   * check cache for the category key  
   */  
   $cached_category = get_transient( $this->get_section( $category ) );  
   if ( false === $cached_category ) {  
    $this->query_posts_from_category( $category );  
   } elseif ( gettype( $cached_category ) === "array" ) {  
    $this->get_posts_from_cached_category( $cached_category );  
   }  
  }  
 }  

To call it simply create an instance of the class "MostReadChartbeat" and use one of the public methods "get_main_posts($array)" or "add_posts_from_posts($string)" adding proper arguments to query chartbeat and cache results for a minute.

I hope that it's going to save you some time while developing some functionalities. If it helped please give me a shout below.