json output mode for php (1/2: for our new csv queries)

twbackends/phpAPI/csv_div.php

@@ -7,22 +7,13 @@ error_reporting(-1);
 
 
 // DISPLAY THE RESULTS
-function displayDoc($docId, $score, $base) {
-
-  $output = "";
+function displayDoc($docId, $score, $base, $outmode) {
 
   // POSS score should have a data-score attribute
-  $output = "<li class='searchhit' title='".$score."'>";
 
   // shortcut to doc
   $doc = $base[$docId];
 
-  // £TODO new concept: use searchhit-templates
-  $has_template = False ;
-  if ($has_template) {
-
-  }
-  else {
   // fallback "universal" values
   $title = try_attrs_until_you_find($doc, ['title', 'tit', 't']);
   $source = try_attrs_until_you_find($doc, ['source', 'journal', 'j']);
@@ -39,15 +30,26 @@ function displayDoc($docId, $score, $base) {
     if ($day) {         $date .= "/".$day;  } }
 
   // "universal" template
+  if ($outmode == 'html') {
+    $output = "<li class='searchhit' title='".$score."'>";
     $output.="<p><b>$title</b> by <span class='author'>$author</span>, <i>$source</i> [$date]</p>";
     if (strlen($keywords)) {
       $output.="<p><b>keywords:</b> $keywords</p>";
     }
     $output.="<p><span class='hit-text'>$doccontent</span></p>";
-  }
-
     $output.="</li>";
-
+  }
+  // json mode
+  else {
+    $output = array(
+      "tit" => $title,
+      "au" => $author,
+      "src" => $source,
+      "kws" => $keywords,
+      "txt" => $doccontent,
+      "date" => $date
+    );
+  }
   return $output;
 }
 
@@ -67,6 +69,7 @@ function try_attrs_until_you_find($doc_obj, $attr_names_array) {
 
 
 $htmlout = "<ul class=infoitems>\n";
+$jsonout = array();
 $nb_displayed = 0;
 foreach ($sims as $doc => $freq) {
   // doc limit
@@ -75,16 +78,30 @@ foreach ($sims as $doc => $freq) {
   }
 
   $rowid = ltrim($doc, 'd');
-  $thisdoc = displayDoc($rowid, $freq, $base);
+  $thisdoc = displayDoc($rowid, $freq, $base, $output_mode);
   // echodump("doc", $thisdoc);
-  $htmlout .= $thisdoc."\n";
 
+  if ($output_mode == "html") {
+    $htmlout .= $thisdoc."\n";
+  }
+  else {
+    array_push($jsonout, $thisdoc);
+  }
   // doc limit
   $nb_displayed++;
 }
 $htmlout .= "</ul>\n";
 
-echo '<br/><h4><font color="#0000FF"> Full text of top '.$max_item_displayed."/".count($sims).' related publications:</font></h4>'.$htmlout;
+if ($output_mode == "html") {
+  echo '<br/><h4><font color="#0000FF"> Full text of top '.$nb_displayed."/".count($sims).' related publications:</font></h4>';
+  echo $htmlout;
+}
+else {
+  echo json_encode(array(
+    'hits' => $jsonout,
+    'nhits' => $nb_displayed
+  ));
+}
 
 // to see the entire results array:
 // --------------------------------

twbackends/phpAPI/parameters_details.php

@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@
 
 // GLOBAL PARAMS
 // -------------
+// 0 - output mode: 'json' or 'html'
+//  > json is for new use cases where styling is applied via template import in the js
+//  > html is the classical use where data is styled in this php scripts
+$output_mode = "json";
+
 // 1 - relative urls
 $our_php_root="twbackends/phpAPI";        // our php scripts relative URL
 $our_libs_root="twbackends/phpAPI";       // for our few icons and jquery-ui