In what ways can PHP integrate data from external sources like the OpenGeoDB with information stored in a MySQL database?

To integrate data from external sources like the OpenGeoDB with information stored in a MySQL database, you can use PHP to fetch data from the external API, parse the response, and then insert or update the data in your MySQL database accordingly. 

// Example code snippet to integrate data from OpenGeoDB with MySQL database

// Fetch data from OpenGeoDB API
$api_url = 'https://api.opengeodb.org/locations';
$response = file_get_contents($api_url);
$data = json_decode($response, true);

// Connect to MySQL database
$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "username", "password", "database");

// Insert or update data in MySQL database
foreach ($data as $location) {
    $query = "INSERT INTO locations (id, name, latitude, longitude) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?) ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE name = VALUES(name), latitude = VALUES(latitude), longitude = VALUES(longitude)";
    $stmt = $mysqli->prepare($query);
    $stmt->bind_param("isdd", $location['id'], $location['name'], $location['latitude'], $location['longitude']);
    $stmt->execute();
}

// Close database connection
$mysqli->close();

Keywords

PHP OpenGeoDB MySQL integration external data

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