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Using PHP Podio library, cannot get ratings data via PodioItem::get($id)

I am using the latest PHP Podio library (4.0.1) and using PodioItem:get() to get an item from an app. I have found that I can retrieve the 'likes' (i.e. heart) ratings, but I cannot retrieve the voting ratings (e.g. five star or a custom vote I created). This seems to be a problem with newly created apps or adding rating fields to older apps. I can get the rating data from apps that have had the rating field for awhile, perhaps since before the 4.0 library change but not sure.

Besides the normal access attempts in code, I also tried printing out the ratings structure using a print_r and a var_dump and I am getting back no data other than the entries for the 'likes'.

Any thoughts as to why I can' retrieve this data as part of an item get() call?

Solution

  • podio-php don't have access to votes in the current release, but I've just added it to the library. So pull the latest dev version from github (4.0.2 is not good enough). The commit is here: https://github.com/podio/podio-php/commit/fd4f3d66307a26d0ecef961467e8aac47df759c7

    Then you can request votes using the fields option like so:

    $item = PodioItem::get($YOU_ITEM_ID, array('fields' => 'votes'));
var_dump($item->votes);