My Admin who is assisting me on my website does not have an account on MyBB-Plugins.com, but I do and I am using your Newpoints plugin.
So, he has this question regarding the plugin.
Oh yea... I should mention that he's using CoinMarketCap as the source to get the API from.
But, it can be from any API from any stock related website.
Thanks!
So, he has this question regarding the plugin.
Oh yea... I should mention that he's using CoinMarketCap as the source to get the API from.
But, it can be from any API from any stock related website.
Thanks!

0xB9 Wrote:I'm trying to get data from an API to show for the price of stocks.
I added this code into the virtualstock.php file
PHP Code:function cryptoData()
{
global $mybb, $cache, $db, $lang, $cryptoData;
$url = "https://api.coinmarketcap.com/v1/ticker/";
$json = file_get_contents($url);
$data = json_decode($json, TRUE);
// Bitcoin price
$btcprice = $data[0]["price_usd"];
$usd_price = 10;
$bitcoin_price = round( $usd_price / $btcprice , 8);
}
So it now looks like this
PHP Code:$categories[0] = $lang->virtualstock_select_cat;
function cryptoData()
{
global $mybb, $cache, $db, $lang, $cryptoData;
$url = "https://api.coinmarketcap.com/v1/ticker/";
$json = file_get_contents($url);
$data = json_decode($json, TRUE);
// Bitcoin price
$btcprice = $data[0]["price_usd"];
$usd_price = 10;
$bitcoin_price = round( $usd_price / $btcprice , 8);
}
$query = $db->simple_select('virtualstock_categories', '*');
while ($cat = $db->fetch_array($query))
$categories[$cat['cid']] = $cat['name'];
$form = new Form("index.php?module=newpoints-virtualstock&action=do_addcompany", "post", "virtualstock");
$form_container = new FormContainer($lang->virtualstock_addcompany);
$form_container->output_row($lang->virtualstock_addedit_company_name."<em>*</em>", $lang->virtualstock_addedit_company_name_desc, $form->generate_text_box('name', '', array('id' => 'name')), 'name');
$form_container->output_row($lang->virtualstock_addedit_company_description, $lang->virtualstock_addedit_company_description_desc, $form->generate_text_box('description', '', array('id' => 'description')), 'description');
$form_container->output_row($lang->virtualstock_addedit_company_price, $lang->virtualstock_addedit_company_price_desc, $form->generate_select_box('price', $btcprice, array('id' => 'price')), 'price');
$form_container->output_row($lang->virtualstock_addedit_company_icon, $lang->virtualstock_addedit_company_icon_desc, $form->generate_text_box('icon', '', array('id' => 'icon')), 'icon');
$form_container->output_row($lang->virtualstock_addedit_company_disporder, $lang->virtualstock_addedit_company_disporder_desc, $form->generate_text_box('disporder', '0', array('id' => 'disporder')), 'disporder');
$form_container->output_row($lang->virtualstock_addedit_company_total, $lang->virtualstock_addedit_company_total_desc, $form->generate_text_box('total', 1000, array('id' => 'total')), 'total');
$form_container->output_row($lang->virtualstock_addedit_company_available, $lang->virtualstock_addedit_company_available_desc, $form->generate_text_box('available', 1000, array('id' => 'available')), 'total');
$form_container->output_row($lang->virtualstock_addedit_company_visible, $lang->virtualstock_addedit_company_visible_desc, $form->generate_yes_no_radio('visible', 1, true, "", ""), 'visible');
$form_container->output_row($lang->virtualstock_addedit_company_category."<em>*</em>", $lang->virtualstock_addedit_company_category_desc, $form->generate_select_box('cid', $categories, $cid, array('id' => 'cid')), 'cid');
My problem is I'm not sure how to get the data from the API to show in the price, so the line I need help with is this
PHP Code:$form_container->output_row($lang->virtualstock_addedit_company_price, $lang->virtualstock_addedit_company_price_desc, $form->generate_select_box('price', $btcprice, array('id' => 'price')), 'price');
Not sure how I would add the data into that line for it to work correctly.
Any help would be awesome, thanks!