API returns <![CDATA

[epicconstruct]

I accessed the API for 'getclientdata' and was able to get it to run successfully. However some of the fields returned their contents wrapped in <![CDATA[ {$data} ]]> . Particularly firstname, lastname, companyname, and lastlogin. All of the other data returned as regular text.

 

Does anybody know why it returns this way? Or a decent way of handling the oddly returned data?

 

Overall, it seems the API documentation is somewhat lacking. I'm actually planning on writing a class I can use to hit the API instead of pasting their long API example in every piece of code I'd like to make a call. Has anybody done this already or have any more information on the API?

 

Thanks

[epicconstruct]

I altered the example code. It seems to have fixed the problem.

I'm still curious though if anybody has any comments on the original post.

 

$data = explode(";",$data);
foreach ($data AS $temp) {
 $temp = explode("=",$temp);
 $results[$temp[0]] = $temp[1];
}

 

$data = explode(";",$data);
 foreach ($data AS $temp) {
 $temp = explode("=",$temp);
 $temp[1] = str_replace('<![CDATA[', '', $temp[1]);
 $temp[1] = str_replace(']]>', '', $temp[1]);
 $results[$temp[0]] = $temp[1]);
}

[HerrZ]

<![CDATA embedded textvalues are protected from interpreting into a wrong markup.

just preg match the result:

 

$clientarr = whmcsapiGetClientsDatabyID('1');
// custom function test with client ID "1" above
echo "<pre>clientarr"; print_r($clientarr); echo "</pre>";
preg_match('%^\<\!\[CDATA\[(.*)\]\]\>$%',$clientarr['lastlogin'],$match);
echo "<pre>match"; print_r($match); echo "</pre>";
$lastlogin = $match[1];