Traffic Scotland

A package for retrieving the latest traffic information in Scotland through Traffic Scotland.

Designed primarily for the Laravel & Lumen frameworks, you can easily just drop this into any PHP project using Composer.

Table of contents

• Installation
• Upgrading
• Testing
• Configuration
• Troubleshooting
• Package Features
• Minimum Viable Product
• Examples

Installation

Installation using composer:

composer require adewra/traffic-scotland

Laravel/Lumen version compatibility

Version	Status
4.x.x	Untested
5.x.x	Untested
6.x.x	Untested
7.0	Test Build

For Lumen and Laravel versions earlier than 5.5 you'll also need to add the service provider in config/app.php:

Adewra\TrafficScotland\TrafficScotlandServiceProvider::class,

Upgrading

This package is still in Pre-release, upgrade instructions will come when the first update is officially released.

Testing

./vendor/bin/phpunit

Configuration

To publish the configuration file run:

> php artisan vendor:publish --tag=config --tag=migrations --tag=seeds

This will copy the configuration file to config/trafficscotland.php.

Here is an example (and the default) configuration:

    'functionality' => [
        'incidents' => true,
        'roadworks' => [
            'current' => true,
            'planned' => true,
        ],
        'events' => true,
    ],
    'collection_methods' => [
        'api' => true,
        'rss_feeds' => false,
        'webpage_scraping' => false,
    ],
    'storage' => true

To run our database migrations that allow for storing of the data:

php artisan migrate --path=/packages/adewra/trafficscotland/src/migrations

Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting hasn't been written yet.

Package features

Type	Included
Configuration	Yes
Views	No
Blade Directives	No
Commands	Yes
Migrations	Yes
Translations	No
Middleware	No
Events	No
Seeds	Yes

MVP & potential future functionality

• Incidents
• Roadworks (Current & Planned)
• Events (& Venues)
• Status/Congestion
• Traffic Cameras
• Queues
• Park and Ride
• Bulletins
• Weather Incidents
• Weather Stations
• Police Travel Warnings
• Variable Message Signs
• Highways England
• News
• Gritters

Methods

The preferred method for obtaining information is through Traffic Scotland's API that is utilised by the mobile version of their website.

Alternative methods include use of Datex II Service, RSS Feeds or through scraping the web pages.

Examples

Retrieving Current Incidents

  $incidents = TrafficScotland::incidents();

  php artisan trafficscotland:incidents

  php artisan tinker
  >>> Adewra\TrafficScotland\Incident::all();

Retrieving Roadworks

 $roadworks = TrafficScotland::roadworks(true, true);

 php artisan trafficscotland:roadworks

 php artisan tinker
 >>> Adewra\TrafficScotland\Roadwork::all();

Retrieving Events

 $roadworks = TrafficScotland::events();

 php artisan trafficscotland:events

 php artisan tinker
 >>> Adewra\TrafficScotland\Event::all();
 >>> Adewra\TrafficScotland\Venue::all();

Lessons Learned

• My original choice of HTTP client Goutte isn't able to handle Traffic Scotland's website's javascript based navigation and as such, I should have gone with Selenium 2 from the beginning. Using Behat's Mink I am able to easily switch between both.