echo variable inside DEFINE in php? - Ebay API

user3716307
June 11, 2014
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I’m trying to figure out how to echo a variable inside a DEFINE function in my php page.

I get the variable like so:

$arr=file("myFile.txt");

foreach($arr as $str){
   list($token)=explode("|",$str);
}

and then I echo it like so on the same page:

echo $token;

up to this point everything works fine.

but I need to echo the $token inside a DEFINE on the same page like so:

DEFINE("AUTH_TOKEN", "'".$token."'");

I don’t get any error at all but this doesn’t work.

however, if i use:

DEFINE("AUTH_TOKEN", 'dghsa7dasdbhas8hdasdasod9a999');

it works just fine. the dghsa7dasdbhas8hdasdasod9a999 is the value of $token stored in the database.

could someone please let me know if I’m missing something or doing anything wrong?

Thanks in advance

EDIT:

This is the entire code I am using:

// eBay site to use - 0 = United States
DEFINE("SITEID", 0);

// production vs. sandbox flag - true=production
DEFINE("FLAG_PRODUCTION", false);

// eBay Trading API version to use
DEFINE("API_COMPATIBILITY_LEVEL", 779);

/* Set the Dev, App and Cert IDs
  Create these on developer.ebay.com
  check if need to use production or sandbox keys */
$arr = file("myFile.txt");

foreach ($arr as $str) {
    list($token) = explode("|", $str);
}

if (FLAG_PRODUCTION) {
    // PRODUCTION
    // Set the production URL for Trading API
    DEFINE("API_URL", 'https://api.ebay.com/ws/api.dll');

    // Set the auth token for the user profile used
    DEFINE("AUTH_TOKEN", 'YOUR_PRODUCTION_TOKEN');

} else {
    $arr = file("myFile.txt");
    foreach ($arr as $str) {
        list($token) = explode("|", $str);
    }
    echo $token;
    // SANDBOX
    // Set the sandbox URL for Trading API calls
    DEFINE("API_URL", 'https://api.sandbox.ebay.com/ws/api.dll');

    // Set production credentials (from developer.ebay.com)
    // Set the auth token for the user profile used
    DEFINE("AUTH_TOKEN", "'" . $token . "'");
}

the database is in a .txt file called myFile.txt and it looks like this:

111111111111111|222222222222222222|3333333333333333333|4444444444444444444444

Tags: php

Answers

- IanLewis
- June 11, 2014 at 2:55 pm
- 0 votes
0
This code has a number of issues such as the repetition of $arr=file(“myFile.txt”), however the crux of the question.

Move AUTH_TOKEN out of the if/else block and define it just after the foreach($arr as $str) loop (before the if/else)

This way you will be defining the AUTH_TOKEN once only and this will be far easier to debug.
```
$arr=file("myFile.txt");

foreach($arr as $str) {
   list($devName,$appName,$certName,$token)=explode("|",$str);
}

DEFINE('AUTH_TOKEN', $token);
```
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