Rest API from PHP

Question

I have a PayPal button which upon checkout completion redirects the user back to the homepage but in the background opens another php page which does a couple of things including updating some databases etc. However in it it I'd also like to perform a rest API request.

http://your-server/rest/createUser?username=testuser&password=testpassword

Here is the URL I need to fire and I'm not too bothered about reading the contents of this to be honest, it respond an XML file saying status OK or error messages but I don't need this... All I want to do is access the URL. This works from a browser, but when I try to use

$apicall = file_get_contents("http://your-server/rest/createUser?username=testuser&password=testpassword");

It doesn't work... Any thought ?

suspectus · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-16 17:16:57Z

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For file_get_contents() to work correctly any special characters have to be encoded.

$url = 'http://your-server....'; $encodedUrl = urlencode($url); $apicall = file_get_contents($encodedUrl);

The other thing to check is that allow_url_fopen php.ini setting is set to true. (It is by default).

edited Aug 16, 2019 at 17:16

answered Aug 15, 2019 at 20:08

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Henry Aspden Over a year ago

nope doesn't work. It's a weird one, the URL works from a browser, but not when using file_get_contents... Should I be able to echo the $apicall or display it somehow to check it's working?

suspectus Over a year ago

If you use a hosting provider I would ask them about it.

suspectus Over a year ago

Re logging try error_log('fgc:' . print_r($apicall, true));. Output goes to error log. which maybe /var/log/apache2/error_log but that depends on your web service and config.

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