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What is Colour Lovers PHP?

• Colour Lovers PHP is an easy to use PHP library for the ColourLOVERS.com API.
• More information at the ColourLOVERS.com API page

What methods are available?

There are 6 categories of methods available:

1. Colors: color, colors, colors_new, colors_top, colors_random
2. Palettes: palette, palettes, palettes_new, palettes_top, palettes_random
3. Patterns: pattern, patterns, patterns_new, patterns_top, patterns_random
4. Lovers: lover, lovers, lovers_new, lovers_top
5. Stats: stats_color, stats_palettes, stats_patterns, stats_lovers
6. Client Library: set_result_type, last_request

Getting Started / Sample Code

• Download ColourLovers.php.
• Create a PHP file with this code:

require('ColourLovers.php');
$c = new ColourLovers;
$results = $c->color('0099FF');
print_r($results);

• You’re done. Awesome. Here’s the output:

Array
(
[color] => Array
  (
    [id] => 1602
    [title] => dell.light blue
    [userName] => COLOURlover
    [numViews] => 4992
    [numVotes] => 0
    [numComments] => 8
    [numHearts] => 0
    [rank] => 9459
    [dateCreated] => 2005-07-07 11:13:43
    [hex] => 0099FF
    [rgb] => Array
      (
         [red] => 0
         [green] => 153
         [blue] => 255
      )
    [hsv] => Array
      (
         [hue] => 204
         [saturation] => 100
         [value] => 100
      )
    [description] => 
    [url] => http://www.colourlovers.com/color/0099FF/dell.light_blue
    [imageUrl] => http://www.colourlovers.com/img/0099FF/100/100/dell.light_blue.png
    [badgeUrl] => http://www.colourlovers.com/images/badges/c/1/1602_dell.light_blue.png
    [apiUrl] => http://www.colourlovers.com/api/color/0099FF
  )
)