API: Is It A Holiday Today?

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Overview: Find out if a school/region/district/authority is currently on holiday today.

Result: API returns Holiday Status.

Holiday Status: true means the school is on holiday, false means it is a term date

Example API call for a district:

http://myschoolholidays.com/api/isItAHolidayToday?district_id=1

Example of returned data:

true

Example API call for a school:

http://myschoolholidays.com/api/isItAHolidayToday?school_id=8639

Example of returned data:

true

Example code for developers to work with

PHP..

< ?php
$ch = curl_init ("http://myschoolholidays.com/api/isItAHolidayToday?district_id=1");
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$output = curl_exec ($ch);
$isItAHoliday = json_decode($output);
echo $isItAHoliday["status"]; // A string containing true or false, note this is not a boolean at this point..
?>

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