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Hi guys, I'm following the Video Game aggregator series but am struggling now I've moved on to a single page.
public function show($slug)
{
$game = Http::withHeaders([ /* Use HTTP client with headers of API tokens from .env */
'Client-ID' => env('IGDB_KEY'),
'Authorization' => env('IGDB_AUTH'),
]) ->withBody( /* Get the 12 highest rated games with their name and rating */
'fields name, slug;
where slug=\"$slug\";
limit 1;',
'text/plain'
)
->post('https://api.igdb.com/v4/games')->json();
dump($game);
return view('show');
}
Following the video I run in to this error - cause" => "Mismatched input, double check your input. Common cause is sending " instead of "." - I read about single quoted string variables being handled different by PHP so I also tried this method that is working with some previous variable I had however they are hardcoded.
public function show($slug)
{
$game = Http::withHeaders([ /* Use HTTP client with headers of API tokens from .env */
'Client-ID' => env('IGDB_KEY'),
'Authorization' => env('IGDB_AUTH'),
]) ->withBody( /* Get the 12 highest rated games with their name and rating */
'fields name, slug;
where slug= '.$slug.';
limit 1;',
'text/plain'
)
->post('https://api.igdb.com/v4/games')->json();
dump($game);
return view('show');
}
This returns me the error - "cause" => "Expecting a STRING as input, surround your input with quotes starting at 'maia' expecting {'{', 'f', '(', '[', 'true', 't', 'false', 'null', 'n'" - So I'm not sure on how retrieve game details where the slug matches the slug that is in the URL and is being passed across.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
remove the ; from this line where slug= '.$slug.'; because you have limit 1; on the next one, so you are closing it twice. And make sure after the = on slug you don't have a space:
'fields name, slug;
where slug='.$slug.'
limit 1;',
@Nakov Thanks for the quick response!
I've tried that and updated my code however I'm getting the same result of it expecting a string.
public function show($slug)
{
$game = Http::withHeaders([ /* Use HTTP client with headers of API tokens from .env */
'Client-ID' => env('IGDB_KEY'),
'Authorization' => env('IGDB_AUTH'),
]) ->withBody( /* Get the 12 highest rated games with their name and rating */
'fields name, slug;
where slug='.$slug.'
limit 1;',
'text/plain'
)
->post('https://api.igdb.com/v4/games')->json();
dump($game);
return view('show');
}
"cause" => "Expecting a STRING as input, surround your input with quotes starting at 'maia' expecting {'{', 'f', '(', '[', 'true', 't', 'false', 'null', 'n'"
@j00rd Here is the source code of what is used: https://github.com/laracasts/laracasts-videogames/blob/c641a5f0ef03fffae52f0ed2fdd0cbccb2a61940/app/Http/Controllers/GamesController.php
you can reuse something from there and find your issue, I cannot spot it without running the code myself.
Full code: https://github.com/laracasts/laracasts-videogames/tree/v4
@Nakov Someone has replied to me with the answer but I can't see it on the thread only my emails, it was @webrobert so thank you both.
The solution was -
->withBody(
'fields name, slug;
where slug= "'.$slug.'";
limit 1;',
'text/plain'
)
I just had to wrap the '.$slug.' in double quotes.
@j00rd oops, ill take the best answer, I deleted it by mistake.
Here it is again...
->withBody(
'fields name, slug;
where slug= "'.$slug.'";
limit 1;',
'text/plain'
)
@webrobert hahah luckily still had the email, thank you !
@j00rd, I updated my reply, please mark it as best answer. Glad it helped!
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