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Darrell Conklin
Darrell Conklin
22,096 Points
Posted by Darrell Conklin
Darrell Conklin
22,096 Points

APIs and where to start

I work for a small e-commerce / marketing company. We've been working hard trying to split the workload and do as little outsourcing as possible. So I've been tasked with most of the technical work and we are now required to do age verification on a couple of our websites. I've never implemented an API before and was wandering what courses I should be learning. It's an OpenCart 2.x site if that would help you any in pointing me in the right direction.

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Vittorio Somaschini
Vittorio Somaschini
33,371 Points
Vittorio Somaschini
Vittorio Somaschini
33,371 Points

Hello Darrell.

Talking about apis I am not sure there is a dedicated course here on Treehouse. I remember in one course we interacted with the treehouse API if I am not wrong, being able to gathered collected badges and infos of Treehouse students. I think it was a javascript course.

But I can tell you that APIs are normally designed to be picked up easily by developers so that they can use them without too much struggle. For example I built a couple of things using the instagram API or Twitter's API and both were pretty easy to understand! And, I had no experience with APIs...

The best place to start would be the documentation of the API itself, which API are you trying to use?

Vitto

Darrell Conklin
Darrell Conklin
22,096 Points
Darrell Conklin
Darrell Conklin
22,096 Points

EVS (Electronic Verification Systems) IdentiFlo

EDIT: The request example code looks pretty straight forward I think the OpenCart part of it is going to be the headache. I was just hoping to find some reference material to give me a hand.