Eric Martindale

If you notice, I currently display my Foursquare badges over in the right hand side. I'm not sure about how long I'll display them specifically, so here's a screenshot:

I recently received an email inquiring about how I accomplished this. Well, since I use Chyrp, here's how I did it:

1. In includes/controller/Main.php, add the following, somewhere around line 715 (immediately after $this->context["sql_queries"] =& SQL::current()->queries;): // BEGIN Foursquare Badges $cURL = curl_init(); curl_setopt($cURL, CURLOPT_URL, "http://api.foursquare.com/v1/user.json?badges=1"); curl_setopt($cURL, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_setopt($cURL, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($cURL, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC); curl_setopt($cURL, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "your@email.com:your_password_here"); $strPage = curl_exec($cURL); curl_close($cURL); $foursquare = json_decode($strPage); $badges = $foursquare->user->badges; foreach ($badges as $badge) { $this->context['foursquare_badges'] .= '<img src="'.$badge->icon.'" title="'.$badge->description.'" />'; }
// END Foursquare Badges
2. In themes/your_theme_name/content/sidebar.twig, wherever you want to display your foursquare tags, simply add: <div> <h1>Foursquare Badges</h1> $foursquare_badges </div></code> You can display this wherever you like, in any part of your Chyrp template.