/** frame. it takes an URL as an argument */
function _parseparltrack($url)
{
// Parse the parltrack URL
$json = "";
$parltrack = fopen("{$url}", "r");
while (($line = fgets($parltrack)) !== False) {
$json .= $line;
}
$parl_mep = json_decode($json, true);
foreach ($parl_mep["Mail"] as $mail) {
$mep["mail"][] = $mail;
}
$mep["stb"] = str_replace(' ', '', $parl_mep["Addresses"]["Strasbourg"]["Phone"]);
$mep["bxl"] = str_replace(' ', '', $parl_mep["Addresses"]["Strasbourg"]["Phone"]);
$mep["group"] = $parl_mep["Groups"][0]["groupid"];
$mep["name"] = $parl_mep["Name"]["full"];
$mep["url"] = $parl_mep["Homepage"];
$mep["country"] = countryCodes($parl_mep["Constituencies"][0]["country"]);
$mep["party"] = $parl_mep["Constituencies"][0]["party"];
foreach ($parl_mep["Committees"] as $committee) {
$mep["committee"][] = $committee["abbr"];
}
$mep["picurl"] = $parl_mep["Photo"];
//FIXME Green party is Verts in parltrack and Green in memopol
if (strcmp($mep["group"], "Verts/ALE") == 0) {
$mep["group"] = "Greens/EFA";
}
$meta = @serialize($mep);
fclose($parltrack);
return $meta;
}
/**
* Fetch the array of iso country codes => country names
* @return array
*/
public static function getCountries()
{
require_once dirname(__FILE__) . '/../gateway_forms/includes/countryCodes.inc';
return countryCodes();
}
