ckan-php-client

Tiny CKAN API client written in PHP

Requirements

• PHP 5.6+ : http://php.net

Installation

The recommended way to install is through composer.

And run these two commands to install it:

$ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-dir=bin

Create a composer.json file for your project:

{
"repositories": [
{
"type": "git",
"url": "https://github.com/GSA/ckan-php-client.git"
}
],
"require": {
"gsa/ckan-php-client": "0.*"
},
}

Install dependencies:

$ composer install

Now you can add the autoloader, and you will have access to the library:

<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

Usage

<?php
use CKAN\CkanClient;
$apiUrl = 'http://catalog.data.gov/api/3'; // CKAN API URL
$apiKey = 'xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx'; // CKAN API KEY, if needed / or null
$Ckan = new CkanClient($apiUrl, $apiKey);
$ckanResults = $Ckan->package_search('organization:irs-gov');
$ckanResults = json_decode($ckanResults, true);

Sample

Check GSA/ckan-php-manager script as an example

CKAN API DOCs

http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api/index.html