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PHP and iControl REST

Problem this snippet solves: PHP and iControl REST interfaces Here are a couple of ways to use PHP and iControlREST (iCR). iCR is lighter-weight than iControl SOAP but is only supported on >= v1...
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Nov 28, 2016

Hi Santosh, The functions and methods return PHP variables because I used the json_decode method on the returned JSON. So the returned data is an object that contains an array. Therefore you can manage the array by using foreach on the array eg:

 

$handle = curl_init();
$icr = iCR($handle,"admin","admin","GET","https:///mgmt/tm/ltm/pool")
foreach ($icr->items as $i=>$v) {
  echo "Pool name:$v->name 
";
}

If you want to retrieve the JSON, I suggest you use json_encode or alternatively change the code of the methods to return the JSON, although I can't see what using the JSON instead of the standard PHP functions will give you.