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Hello, I am trying to create a hiscores website although i am not quite good with arrays, but this is what i am trying to do once the user enters there username using the $_GET['player'] then it will pull the information from Runescapes API from which i want it to store in my database using PDO.


I just need help with the parsing the arrays and inserting them into my database with some basic validation.

if anymore information is required i can provide

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Post an example of the data you're getting back from the API.
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speed wrote Post an example of the data you're getting back from the API.


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Well the data is sent back in CSV format.

You can use String.split(",") to get back each value in a seperate position in an array.
I would advise putting all the values into a String array first considering some of them have spaces in the response.


Javascript


// Connect to the API
// Retrieve the results from API script.
var results = // API response

/*
    Depending on which values you need to use, get them
    from the array and use them.
*/

XMLHttpRequest xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); // Create a new ajax request
var url = "savetodatabase.php"; // Set the php script to send the data to
var query = "username=" + results[0] + "&score=" + results[1]; // Set the query parameters

xhr.open("POST", url, true); // Open the request to the server, provide the php script and set the operation to asynchronous
http.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"); // Set the header information

xhr.onreadystatechange = function() { // Do this function when the state changes
    if(xhr.readyState == 4 && xhr.status == 200) {
        alert(xhr.responseText); // Show an alert with the response from the server
    }
}

xhr.send(query); // Send the request



PHP

<?php

// Get the values sent in
$username = $_POST["username"];
$score = $_POST["score"];

// Create a new instance of PDO
$conn = new PDO("mysql:host=localhost;dbname=database_name;", "username", "password");

// Insert the values into the table.
$result = $conn->query("INSERT INTO tablename(column1, column2) VALUES ($username, $score");

// If the result was successful, $result will hold the number of affected rows hence
// if it is greater than 0, it was successful
if ($result->rowCount() > 0) {
    echo "Database updated successfully."; // Return success message to browser
} else {
    echo "Operation failed."; // Return failure message to browser
}

?>


If you are doing all this work locally, you should be fine to not have to handle XSS and SQL injection.
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