Collecting a referenced app's values - podio

Question

I am trying to cleanup and optimize my come I am running on podio's API. What I am currently doing is using the filter query to return a collection from one app. I then loop over that collection. On each item I use Podio get_field_value to return the value(s) of a field in a referenced app. This creates a lot of API calls. I would like to retrieve everything in one API call Here is a simple version of my current code:
$collection = PodioItem::filter(WHSE_ID, array(
"filters" => array(
WHSE_EQUP_STATUS => array(2),
),
"sort_by" => WHSE_LOAD_IN,
"sort_desc" => false,
"limit" => 50
)
);
foreach ($collection as $item) {
// Table-A ID
$whId = $item->item_id;
// Referenced App Item(s)
$nucId = $item->fields[0]->values[0]->item_id;
// Get Referenced App Item Field
$app_b_value = PodioItem::get_field_value($nucId, NUC_LOAD_OUT);
echo $app_b_value;
}
Is there a more efficient way of doing this? I am thinking inline with the way you would use JOIN in a mysql query.
Thank you for any help you can provide!

Answer 1

if you are trying to get value from each item from filtered collection, you don't need to make podio calls each time.
Podio filter call will give you item with values. you just have to get value from each item.
like following
foreach ($podioFilterData['items'] as $itemData) {
$itemFields = $itemData['fields'];
foreach ($itemFields as $field) {
$value = $field['values'][0];
}
}