CoreGradeWeb/app/Controllers/BaseController.php

<?php

namespace App\Controllers;

use CodeIgniter\Controller;
use CodeIgniter\HTTP\CLIRequest;
use CodeIgniter\HTTP\IncomingRequest;
use CodeIgniter\HTTP\RequestInterface;
use CodeIgniter\HTTP\ResponseInterface;
use Psr\Log\LoggerInterface;
use App\Services\WpContentsClient;

/**
 * Class BaseController
 *
 * BaseController provides a convenient place for loading components
 * and performing functions that are needed by all your controllers.
 * Extend this class in any new controllers:
 *     class Home extends BaseController
 *
 * For security be sure to declare any new methods as protected or private.
 */

class BaseController extends Controller
{
	/**
	 * Instance of the main Request object.
	 *
	 * @var IncomingRequest|CLIRequest
	 */
	protected $request;

	/**
	 * An array of helpers to be loaded automatically upon
	 * class instantiation. These helpers will be available
	 * to all other controllers that extend BaseController.
	 *
	 * @var array
	 */
	protected $helpers = [];

	/**
	 * Constructor.
	 *
	 * @param RequestInterface  $request
	 * @param ResponseInterface $response
	 * @param LoggerInterface   $logger
	 */

    protected $session =  [];

	public function initController(RequestInterface $request, ResponseInterface $response, LoggerInterface $logger)
	{
		// Do Not Edit This Line
		parent::initController($request, $response, $logger);

		//--------------------------------------------------------------------
		// Preload any models, libraries, etc, here.
		//--------------------------------------------------------------------
		// E.g.: $this->session = \Config\Services::session();
        $this->session = \Config\Services::session();
	}

    public function APIcall($method, $url, $data) {
        //  $curl = curl_init();
        $curl = curl_init($url);
        switch ($method) {
            case "GET":
                $params2 = '';
                foreach($data as $key2=>$value2)
                    $params2 .= $key2.'='.$value2.'&';

                $params2 = trim($params2, '&');
                $url = $url.'?'.$params2;// add param to URL
                log_message('critical', "API URL FINAL =>".$url );
                //curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT, true);
                //curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
                //curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($data));
                break;
            case "POST":
                curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
                if ($data)
                    //  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
                    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($data));
                //  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($data));
                break;
            case "PUT":
                curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT");
                if ($data)
                    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
                break;
        }

        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
            'APIKEY: RegisteredAPIkey',
            'Content-Type: application/json',
        ));

        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
        $result = curl_exec($curl);

        if(!$result) {
            //echo("Connection failure!");
            return json_decode('', true);
        }
        curl_close($curl);
        return json_decode($result, true);
    }

    protected function getBlogOneItem($postId) :array {
        $siteData = $this->getBlogItems();
        $blogItem = $this->loopToFindItem($siteData['blogdata'],$postId); // $siteData['blogdata'][0];
        $blogItem['blog_media_url'] = $siteData['blog_media_url'];

        return $blogItem;
    }

    // TODO - This is bad idea - good for now
    private function loopToFindItem($blogItem, $postId) {
        foreach($blogItem as $p) {
            if($p['id'] == $postId) {
                return $p;
            }
        }
    }
    protected function getBlogItems() :array {
        $siteData =[];

        if ( $this->session->get("siteData") !== null && count( $this->session->get("siteData")) > 0 ){
            return $this->session->get("siteData");
        }
        $blogURL = 'https://blogdata.chiefsoft.net/blogdata/coregrade'; //http://10.10.10.35:8805/blogdata/coregrade

        $out  = $this->APIcall('GET',$blogURL,[]);
        $siteData['blogdata'] = is_array(  $out['payload']['blogdata']) ?  $out['payload']['blogdata'] : [];
        $siteData['blog_media_url'] = $out['payload']['image_url'];

        $this->session->set("siteData",$siteData);

        return $siteData;

//        $apiEndpointsConfig = config('ApiEndpoints');
//        $wpData =  WpContentsClient::serviceGetBlogItems($apiEndpointsConfig->baseUrl);
//        $blog_post = array();
//        $blog_cnt =0;
//        foreach ($wpData[0]->payload as $item) {
//            $itemA = array(
//                'title' => $item->post_title,
//                'desc' =>  substr($item->post_content,0,100),
//                'link' => $item->guid,
//                'date' => date_format(date_create( $item->post_date),'Y-m-d'),
//                'image' => "https://blog.mermsemr.com/wp-content/uploads/".$item->meta_value,
//            );
//            if ($blog_cnt == 0){
//                $this->session->blogItem =  $itemA ;
//            }
//            $blog_cnt++;
//            array_push($blog_post, $itemA);
//        }
//        return $blog_post;
    }
}