Yapeal

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[edit] Yapeal

Yet-Another-PHP-Eve-Api-Library said Ya-Peel was developed to get data from the EVE APIs as a part of another EVE project that. It's been separated into it's own project in hopes that others might find it useful. It's been released under the GNU LPGL 3.0 license (copyleft) so it's available for everyone to use and abuse.

[edit] More detailed explanation

Here an extend explanation of what Yapeal does since it a little different then the other PHP API libraries people are using.

It not only grabs the data from the API for you but also saves the data into a MySQL database as well. It was made to be ran from a crontab job and works in the background to 'Auto-magically' as I call it, keep the database updated so all you have to do is work with the database tables not the API and XML. It was made to be set and forget once configured.

Some features:

 * Auto download of API data
 * Auto updating of database tables
 * Uses cURL for API download to be hosted site friendly
 * Uses ADOdb (included) for database updating
 * Made to be ran from crontab (preferred setup)
 * Runs from command-line for debugging or special needs
 * Uses the database to keep track of API cachedUntil times so it is API friendly even when ran from crontab
 * Does optional local caching of API's XML file
 * Works with multiple corporations and multiple characters by just adding their information to database tables

Many other features but those are the main ones for now.