Sorry for the noob questions. I do write in PHP and Javascript, but am struggling to use the examples to write a simple page to (for instance) list out a series of items in a collection :-/ All the examples (here and across the web) just show the data with console.log. I’ve mucked around trying to …

Hi, personally I think its best to use some kind of front end framework like React or Vue to display the data since its a lot easier to manage using a shared component/ layout template. The basic idea is to store your initial fetch data to some kind of state or variable in your application. You can…

Hey Snewmn, thanks so much for replying to me. I’ll work through your steps and see if I can get closer to understanding and making this work. I’ve tried using vue - which looks great, but I’m quickly getting bogged down with learning more and more new markup etc. Thanks again, I’ll post when I …

Heres also a quick introduction point if you want to stay using PHP: <?php $res = file_get_contents('https://www.example.com/api/collections/get/people?token=xxx'); $res = json_decode($res, true); // so you can see the data, since theres no console // echo '<pre>'; var_dump($res[entries]); echo …

@snewmn Just a Quick-note on your PHP Code: Never use barewords

[image] snewmn: $res = file_get_contents('https://www.example.com/api/collections/get/people?token=xxx'); $res = json_decode($res, true); If you run Cockpit on the same server as your frontend code you can also directly include cockpit into your project and access all its functionality and da…

Thanks again to both of you for responding. I’m sure I’ll be able to get off the ground with one or both of these answers. I wasn’t sure I’d get a response - but you’ve been so helpful :slight_smile:

You can also use Guzzle to do this : Tutorial : https://artisansweb.net/use-guzzle-php-http-client-sending-http-requests Doc : Guzzle, PHP HTTP client — Guzzle Documentation :wink:

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