/** * * @return mixed */ public function populateCategories() { $refresh = Input::get('refresh'); if ($refresh == true) { Cache::forget('categories'); } if (Cache::has('categories')) { $data = Cache::get('categories'); Foursquare::saveSpotCategories($data->response->categories); } else { $ch = curl_init(); $url = 'https://api.foursquare.com/v2/venues/categories?&oauth_token=1MZTZYIARGVDAGDQAHOVESDUR3P4OFZA2ABTIBESMJNNJM0T&v=20160106'; curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); //https://api.foursquare.com/v2/venues/search?ll=10.3156990,123.8854370&oauth_token=1MZTZYIARGVDAGDQAHOVESDUR3P4OFZA2ABTIBESMJNNJM0T&v=20160106&query=food curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); $data = curl_exec($ch); if (curl_errno($ch)) { die("Couldn't send request: " . curl_error($ch)); } else { $resultStatus = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE); if ($resultStatus == 200) { $expiry = Carbon::now()->addDays(1); $data = json_decode($data); Cache::add('categories', $data, $expiry); Foursquare::saveSpotCategories($data->response->categories); return response()->json('success', 200); } else { die('Request failed: HTTP status code: ' . $resultStatus); } } } // dd(json_decode($data)); }