Api uses cache, RestApi is based on json files

app/Controller.php

@@ -19,6 +19,13 @@ class Controller {
 
         // Init campaign informations
         $f3->set('campaign', Api::get_campaign());
+
+        // Init contacts list if needed
+        if (!$f3->exists('contacts')) {
+            $f3->set('contacts', Api::get_contacts()['contacts'], API_TIMEOUT);
+        }
+        // Workaround for caching variables
+        $f3->set('contacts', $f3->get('contacts'));
     }
 
     // Function called after routing

app/Main.php

@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ class Main extends Controller {
      * Presents campaign information and a random Contact
      */
     function home($f3,$args) {
-        $f3->set('contact', Api::get_contact());
+        // Select a random contact
+        $rand_id = rand(0, count($f3->get('contacts'))-1);
+        $f3->set('contact', $f3->get('contacts')[$rand_id]);
         $f3->set('block_content','home.html');
     }
 

app/RestApi.php

 <?php
-// Fake REST API from Campaign module
+/*
+ * Fake REST API from Campaign module
+ *
+ * Uses datas folder to retrieve informations
+ */
 
 class RestApi {
+    function return_datas($filename) {
+        $f = fopen($filename, 'r');
+        $result = fread($f, filesize($filename));
+        fclose($f);
+        return $result;
+    }
+
     function campaign($f3,$args) {
-        echo '{
-            "title": "Piphone Demo\'s campaign",
-            "description": "This is a demo campaign used to illustrate how the piphone works. This campaign does not grants you the possibility to contact anyone, it\'s just an ilustration of how it works.",
-            "start_date": "2014-01-01",
-            "end_date": "2014-12-31",
-            "default_language": "en"
-        }';
+        echo $this->return_datas('app/datas/campaign.json');
     }
 
     function contacts($f3,$args) {
-        // List of contacts
-        echo '{"contacts":[{
-                "id": "4123",
-                "last_name": "ANDERSDOTTER",
-                "first_name": "Amelia",
-                "tel": "+322 28 45922",
-                "groups": [{"type": "Political group","name": "Greens/EFA","media": ""},{"type": "National party","name": "Piratpartiet","media": ""},
-                {"type": "Country","name": "SE","media": ""},{"type": "Committee","name": "ITRE","media": ""},{"type": "Committee","name": "INTA","media": ""},
-                    {"type": "Committee","name": "CONT","media": ""}
-                ]},{
-                "id": "4123",
-                "last_name": "ANDERSDOTTER",
-                "first_name": "Amelia",
-                "tel": "+322 28 45922",
-                "groups": [{"type": "Political group","name": "Greens/EFA","media": ""},{"type": "National party","name": "Piratpartiet","media": ""},
-                {"type": "Country","name": "SE","media": ""},{"type": "Committee","name": "ITRE","media": ""},{"type": "Committee","name": "INTA","media": ""},
-                    {"type": "Committee","name": "CONT","media": ""}
-                ]},{
-                "id": "4123",
-                "last_name": "ANDERSDOTTER",
-                "first_name": "Amelia",
-                "tel": "+322 28 45922",
-                "groups": [{"type": "Political group","name": "Greens/EFA","media": ""},{"type": "National party","name": "Piratpartiet","media": ""},
-                {"type": "Country","name": "SE","media": ""},{"type": "Committee","name": "ITRE","media": ""},{"type": "Committee","name": "INTA","media": ""},
-                    {"type": "Committee","name": "CONT","media": ""}
-                ]}
-            ]}';
+        echo $this->return_datas('app/datas/contacts.json');
     }
 
     function contact($f3,$args) {

app/datas/README

+This folder contains only datas for the fake REST API (for tests and dev).
+

app/datas/campaign.json

+{
+    "title": "Piphone Demo's campaign",
+    "description": "This is a demo campaign used to illustrate how the piphone works. This campaign does not grants you the possibility to contact anyone, it's just an ilustration of how it works.",
+    "start_date": "2014-01-01",
+    "end_date": "2014-12-31",
+    "default_language": "en"
+}

app/datas/contacts.json

+{
+    "contacts":[
+        {
+            "id": "75426",
+            "last_name": "ANDERSDOTTER",
+            "first_name": "Amelia",
+            "tel": "+322 28 45922",
+            "external_id": "108570",
+            "groups": [
+                {
+                    "type": "Political group",
+                    "name": "Greens/EFA",
+                    "media": ""
+                },
+                {
+                    "type": "National party",
+                    "name": "Piratpartiet",
+                    "media": ""
+                },
+                {
+                    "type": "Country",
+                    "name": "SE",
+                    "media": ""
+                },
+                {
+                    "type": "Committee",
+                    "name": "ITRE",
+                    "media": ""
+                },
+                {
+                    "type": "Committee",
+                    "name": "INTA",
+                    "media": ""
+                },
+                {
+                    "type": "Committee",
+                    "name": "CONT",
+                    "media": ""
+                }
+            ]
+        },
+        {
+            "id": "1245",
+            "last_name": "BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ",
+            "first_name": "Vilija",
+            "tel": "+322 28 45435",
+            "external_id": "96681",
+            "groups": [
+                {
+                    "type": "Political group",
+                    "name": "S&D",
+                    "media": ""
+                },
+                {
+                    "type": "National party",
+                    "name": "LSDP",
+                    "media": ""
+                },
+                {
+                    "type": "Country",
+                    "name": "LI",
+                    "media": ""
+                },
+                {
+                    "type": "Committee",
+                    "name": "LIBE",
+                    "media": ""
+                },
+                {
+                    "type": "Committee",
+                    "name": "FEMM",
+                    "media": ""
+                },
+                {
+                    "type": "Committee",
+                    "name": "EMPL",
+                    "media": ""
+                }
+            ]
+        },
+        {
+            "id": "2324",
+            "last_name": "ANDRIEU",
+            "first_name": "Eric",
+            "tel": "+322 28 45170",
+            "external_id": "113892",
+            "groups": [
+                {
+                    "type": "Political group",
+                    "name": "S&D",
+                    "media": ""
+                },
+                {
+                    "type": "National party",
+                    "name": "Parti socialiste",
+                    "media": ""
+                },
+                {
+                    "type": "Country",
+                    "name": "FR",
+                    "media": ""
+                },
+                {
+                    "type": "Committee",
+                    "name": "INTA",
+                    "media": ""
+                },
+                {
+                    "type": "Committee",
+                    "name": "AGRI",
+                    "media": ""
+                }
+            ]
+        }
+    ]
+}

templates/contact.html

 <!-- contact page -->
 <h3>Random MEP</h3>
-<p class="left"><img src="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/mepphoto/108570.jpg" alt="mep"></p>
+<p class="left"><img src="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/mepphoto/{{ @contact.external_id }}.jpg" alt="mep"></p>
 <p id="name">{{ @contact.first_name }} {{ @contact.last_name }}</p>
 <ul id="resume">
     <li id="phone">Phone number: <a href="tel:{{ @contact.tel }} ">{{ @contact.tel }}</a></li>