Comments on: SimpleBackpack: PHP wrapper class for Backpack API

By: Daniel Drucker

Daniel Drucker — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:48:48 +0000

Hey … it’s September 2006 now … any hope of updating this to return an error if the request fails?

By: Core.B

Core.B — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 13:55:21 +0000

FYI: I’ve added in the undocumented multiple lists features in an extension of your class. Let me know if you’re interested in it. I’m still working on getting it cleaned up and published.

By: christoph

christoph — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:17:26 +0000

Yeah, error handling is pretty much non-existant so far. I’ll have to update this sooner than later anyway with the new backpack features like multiple lists per page &c but i highly doubt that i will get around to this before christmas…

By: Daniel Drucker

Daniel Drucker — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 03:48:12 +0000

Is there any way to know if the request fails? Right now, it appears that even if it fails, it still “succeeds”, in the sense that you can’t do something like $bp->create_item($content,$pageid) or die; … that will NEVER die, no matter what.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 14:17:28 +0000

Thanks guys. I think I tried the substitution, but I don’t remember it working. I will look into it further, as I was rushed out the door.

I hacked together a quick WML page using SimpleBackpack, it was working great until I upgraded my account ;-) So thanks guys.

If I figure a fix I will let you know.

By: christoph

christoph — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 23:32:57 +0000

Matt, many thanks for the XML-parsing layer. Andy, no, this class doesn't support SSL so far. I meant to look into it, but as i don't have a plan with SSL-support that's kinda difficult. The class uses curl for api calls, if using https:// instead of http:// as Matt suggested doesn't work you might find useful information at the php.net curl function reference page.

By: matt

matt — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 06:05:19 +0000

SimpleBackpack.php doesn’t appear to use SSL, but if you edit the file, around line 47 you should see where it starts to construct the request URL. You SHOULD be able to just change that from http:// to https:// and have it work. I don’t have one of the SSL accounts though, so can’t test it.

Hope that helps.

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 23:14:43 +0000

Does this support SSL usage for the paid plans? I just upgraded and now I’m getting redirects. Tried a few quick code hacks but no luck.

By: matt

matt — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 18:11:54 +0000

FYI: I added some XML parsing for it — http://blog.mattwalters.net/extending-backpacksimplebackpack-wrapper/

By: Packagethief

Packagethief — Sun, 22 May 2005 03:58:38 +0000

Very nice. I hacked up something similar but far less complete a few days ago which I posted in Backpack — but I’m linking to yours now.