Running the PHP Examples
Updated on Thursday, 19 July, 2012 - 14:23
Download the PHP Client Library
Download a copy of the library from our GitHub PHP page. There are two ways to do this.
- In Github, click Download and extract the archive manually
- Use git from the command line:
git clone https://www.github.com/datasift/datasift-php.git
Learn to Use the PHP Client Library
These steps test the REST API (api.datasift.com) and then the streaming API (stream.datasift.com).
| Endpoint | Supported? |
| http://api.datasift.com/validate | Yes |
| http://api.datasift.com/compile | Yes |
| http://api.datasift.com/stream | Yes |
| http://api.datasift.com/dpu | Yes |
| http://stream.datasift.com/usage | Yes |
| http://stream.datasift.com | Yes |
| ws://websocket.datasift.com | No * |
* Note that there are two endpoints for the streaming API:
- stream.datasift.com for HTTP access
- websocket.datasift.com for WS access
The DataSift client libraries use HTTP streaming by default for most languages. There is no technical restriction on hitting the websockets API endpoint. The choice of protocol makes no difference to the data objects that are returned.