Title: API GET Request
Last modified: October 20, 2021

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# API GET Request

 *  [janmoes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janmoes/)
 * (@janmoes)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-get-request/)
 * Hi there
    I’ve built my own plugin. Where you can fill in a form, when fields
   are filled in you can click on submit, and all form fields will be sent to an
   api post request. Only one problem, the email has to be unique. The API allowes
   you to use an email multiple times. To prevent that I thought of making an API
   GET request that searches through all customers with the JUST filled in email.
 *     ```
       $email = wp_remote_get('https://www.sportivity.com/sportivity-api/Customers/ByType/type?email='.$result['inputs']['email'].'&mem=T', [
       				'headers' => [
       					"Content-Type" => "application/json",
       					"Accept" => "application/json",
       					"X-API-TOKEN" => $token,
       					"Connection" => "keep-alive",
       				],
       			]);
   
       			$email = json_decode($email['body'], true);
       			wp_send_json($email);
       			if(count($email['CustomerResources']) > 0){
       				$result['errors']['email']['nl_msg'] = 'Email al in gebruik!';
       				wp_send_json($result);
       			}
       ```
   
 * The wp_send_json($email) returns an object like this, when I fill in an existing
   email:
 *     ```
       {
           "CustomerResources": [
               {
                   "CustomerId": 12889043,
                   "FirstName": "dfdf",
                   "MiddleName": "dfdf",
                   "LastName": "dfdfdf",
                   "Email": "jan@live.nl",
                   "Address": "Wooshstreet",
                   "HouseNumber": "12",
                   "Zipcode": "2312SX",
                   "City": "The Hague",
                   "BirthDate": "29/10/2019",
                   "Language": "Nederlands",
                   "CustomerHasActiveMemberships": false,
                   "TermsAccepted": false,
                   "CompanyLocationId": 0,
                   "CustomerLocations": [
                       {
                           "LocationId": 13653,
                           "LocationName": "Sandbox Impressie",
                           "Status": "Prospect"
                       }
                   ]
               },
               {
                   "CustomerId": 12889218,
                   "FirstName": "dfdfdf",
                   "MiddleName": "dfdfdf",
                   "LastName": "dfdfdf",
                   "Email": "jan@live.nl",
                   "Address": "blabblastreet",
                   "HouseNumber": "12",
                   "Zipcode": "2312LP",
                   "City": "Amsterdam",
                   "BirthDate": "29/11/2019",
                   "Language": "Nederlands",
                   "CustomerHasActiveMemberships": false,
                   "TermsAccepted": false,
                   "CompanyLocationId": 0,
                   "CustomerLocations": [
                       {
                           "LocationId": 13653,
                           "LocationName": "Sandbox Impressie",
                           "Status": "Prospect"
                       }
                   ]
               },
               {
                   "CustomerId": 12889206,
                   "FirstName": "dffddf",
                   "MiddleName": "dfdfdfdf",
                   "LastName": "dfdfdf",
                   "Email": "jan@live.nl",
                   "Address": "Teststreet",
                   "HouseNumber": "12",
                   "Zipcode": "2312LP",
                   "City": "Leiden",
                   "BirthDate": "28/10/2019",
                   "Language": "Nederlands",
                   "CustomerHasActiveMemberships": false,
                   "TermsAccepted": false,
                   "CompanyLocationId": 0,
                   "CustomerLocations": [
                       {
                           "LocationId": 13653,
                           "LocationName": "Sandbox Impressie",
                           "Status": "Prospect"
                       }
                   ]
               },
           ],
           "error": {
               "HttpStatusCode": 200
           }
       }
       ```
   
 * How do I loop through those items in PHP and make sure when there are 1 or more
   customers with the same email, that it will prevent the Customer Post call from
   activating?

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-get-request/#post-14990005)
 * The data was already in a PHP array before it was sent as JSON. Loop through 
   the elements in $email->CustomerResources, extracting out the “Email” element
   value and pushing it into an array that was initially empty. Search this array
   with `array_keys()` using the current email as the $search_value parameter. You
   should get one key (index number) returned, for the email that was just pushed.
   If you get more than one, there are duplicate emails. `array_keys()` returns 
   an array of matched keys, so you can get the number of keys returned with `count()`.
 * As soon as a duplicate is found, no need to continue checking. Return an error
   condition and exit. If the loop completes with no duplicate, it’s safe to make
   the call.
 *  Thread Starter [janmoes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janmoes/)
 * (@janmoes)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-get-request/#post-14991193)
 * shouldn’t I loop through $email[‘CustomerResources’] since I convert the object
   as an array?
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-get-request/#post-14993045)
 * Yes, if that’s what works. I can never remember which is an object and which 
   is an array in JSON.

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