Hi,
Although the example shows how to download to a file, you can download a
report and just process it in memory. Simply pass NULL for the second
argument to *DownloadReportWithAwql* (or *DownloadReport*).
$adwords_config = array(
'server' => 'https://adwords.google.com',
'version' => 'v201402',
);
$response = ReportUtils::DownloadReportWithAwql(
$query, NULL, $user, self::FORMAT_XML, $adwords_config);
return simplexml_load_string($response);
The API also allows you to specify different formats for your report, e.g.,
XML as in the example above. It sounds like this would be preferable for
your use case.
Cheers,
Josh, AdWords API Team
On Friday, March 14, 2014 12:43:24 AM UTC-4, Jake Wilson wrote:
>
> Using the PHP Lib, there is the ReportUtils.php class(es). The way the
> example scripts work for reporting is that your report is downloaded to a
> file on your computer. The file is pre-formatted sort of like this:
>
> Report Title Blah Blah StartDate - End Date
> CSV column description
> data rows (csv style)
> data rows (csv style)
> data rows (csv style)
> data rows (csv style)
> Totals --- --- --- --
>
> I've been glancing through the code and there isn't any sort of option to
> just download the data directly as an array or json or whatever. Why is
> this? Every other aspect of the library fetches data directly to variables
> and class structures. Why do the reports require you to download a file to
> your filesystem that you need to turn around and parse? Looking at the
> above file, I just want the data. I don't want the Title line or columns
> descriptions or totals at the bottom. I just want the data.
>
> Right now I am simply downloading the file, then reading it in and parsing
> it and then deleting the file. But it would be nice if downloading this
> data was more consistent with the rest of the PHP Lib.
>
> Any thoughts or explanations on why this is?
>
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