If you were ever looking for a way to get information in regards to the latest addon versions for your favorite firefox addons, then look no further. There is a really neat xml response api that allows you to search and specify a tag to pull up a specific version.
The api information is located here
And the format looks like this:
To use this in php the following code would suffice:
$output = "" ;
$cnt = file_get_contents('https://services.addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/api/1.5/addon/foxyproxy-standard');
$sxe = simplexml_load_string($cnt);
if ($sxe === false) {
return "" ;
}
$output .= "<style>\nfpbox{font-family:verdana;}\n</style>" ;
$output .= "<div id='fpbox' style='width:200px;background:#eeeeee'>";
$output .= "<img src='".$sxe->icon."' /><br />" ;
$output .= "Addon:".$sxe->name."<br>";
$output .= "Latest Version:".$sxe->version." by ".$sxe->authors[0]->author[0]->name."</br>" ;
$output .= "Version Status:".$sxe->status."</br>" ;
$output .= "Install Link:<a href='".$sxe->install[0]."'>Install</a><br />";
$output .= "Summary:<p>".$sxe->summary."</p>" ;
$output .= "</div>";
To see this in action checkout the demo here.
If you would like more information on the Simple XML api look here
