laravel change url and id on each loop - laravel

Question

I have something like this:
function odeon(){
$data= file_get_contents('https://api.cinelist.co.uk/get/times/cinema/10565');
$data = json_decode($data);
$id = 1;
foreach($data->listings as $listing){
$title = $listing->title;
$time = implode(', ', $listing->times);
$business_id = 1;
$film = Film::where('id', $id)->first();
$id = $id + 1;
// if news is null
if (!$film) {
$film = new Film();
}
$film->title = $title;
$film->times = $time;
$film->business_id = $business_id;
$film->save();
}
return view('odeon')->with(['listings' => $data->listings]);
}
What I want to do is add more cinemas so instead of:
$data=
file_get_contents('https://api.cinelist.co.uk/get/times/cinema/10565');
$data= file_get_contents('https://api.cinelist.co.uk/get/times/cinema/6756');
Be something like:
$data= file_get_contents('https://api.cinelist.co.uk/get/times/cinema/6756-10565');
So to go throught from numbers 6756 to 10565, problem is this as well as each cinema has a different business_id I don't want to replicate function for each cinema so any help will be appreciated ;)
Another issue is what if another day therewill be less films than previous day, of course I don't want to display yesturdays films for today
//edit
Ok I will do my best to explain what I want to achieve.
I want to loop throught a cinema, retrieve films for today, save into database, retrieve data for tomorrow save into database, etc. I want to do it for 7 days, Now for each cinema, cinema id + date changes:
https://api.cinelist.co.uk/get/times/cinema/10565?day=2017-06-14
Would bring me back films for today, but I want to achieve it for 7 days so something like this:
$cinema_id=['10', '20'] (number = cinema_id)
$startdate = strtotime("today");
$enddate = strtotime("+7 Days");
while ($startdate < $enddate) {
echo date("Y-m-d", $startdate) . "<br>";
$startdate = strtotime("+1 Days", $startdate);
}
$data= file_get_contents (https://api.cinelist.co.uk/get/times/cinema/$cinema_id?day=$startdate)
So basically I want to loop throught array of cinema and for each cinema_id, go throught 7 days ahead and save details to database. Of course I don't want to keep old records, so each day they either have to be removed or updated

Answer 1

Your question is vague but probably you mean this...
function odeon(){
$arrayOfCinemaIds = [10565,6756];
foreach($arrayOfCinemaIds as $id){
//append your id
$data= file_get_contents('https://api.cinelist.co.uk/get/times/cinema/'.$id);
$data = json_decode($data);
$id = 1;
foreach($data->listings as $listing){
$title = $listing->title;
$time = implode(', ', $listing->times);
$business_id = 1;
$film = Film::where('id', $id)->first();
$id = $id + 1;
// if news is null
if (!$film) {
$film = new Film();
}
$film->title = $title;
$film->times = $time;
$film->business_id = $business_id;
$film->save();
}
$listings[]=$data->listings;
}
//$listings will have all the listings from all the loops
return view('odeon')->with(['listings' => $listings]);
}
You will just need to add more entries to $arrayOfCimenaIds as you need. Typically you would load them up from a Db or other data store.
EDIT:
If you have a sequence of numbers you dont need the array you can do
for($id=6756;$id<=10565;$id++){..}
instead of the foreach()