CURL with JSON from laravel to API

Question

I am trying to implement an API call from my system, and the API has an example that looks like this:

curl -u "<brugernavn>:<password>" -XPOST http://distribution.virk.dk/cvr-permanent/_search -d' { "from" : 0, "size" : 1, "query": { "term": { "cvrNummer": 10961211 } } } '

Now i want to turn this in to php code. Im thinking it will look something like this:

 public function requestApiV2($vat){ // Start cURL $ch = curl_init(); // Determine protocol $protocol = 'http'; $parameters = json( { "from" : 0, "size" : 1, "query": { "term": { "cvrNummer": $vat } } } ); // Set cURL options curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $protocol . '://distribution.virk.dk/cvr-permanent/_search' . http_build_query($parameters)); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); // Parse result $result = curl_exec($ch); // Close connection when done curl_close($ch); // Parse from json to array $data = json_decode($result, true); }

I can't test this yet, as I still need to acquire username and password from the API, but I am also uncertain about how I send the username and password along with the request in the correct way. Is there a CURLOPT for this as well? I am also uncertain about if my parameters are implemented the right way with the json like that.

thank you :)

Possible duplicate of How to use basic authorization in PHP curl — Chris White
– Chris White, Commented Apr 29, 2019 at 14:12

Michael Nguyen · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-30 20:14:04Z

use Guzzle library. Laravel has included the Guzzle library so you dont need to install it

With Guzzle, the below will do

use GuzzleHttp\Client; public function requestApiV2($vat){ $client = new Client([ // Base URI is used with relative requests 'base_uri' => 'http://distribution.virk.dk/, ]); $response = $client->post('cvr-permanent/_search', [ 'auth' => ['username', 'password'], 'json' => [ 'from' => 0, 'size' => 1, 'query' => [ 'term' => [ 'cvrNumber' => $vat ] ] ] ]); $body = $response->getBody(); dd($body); }

Okay this looks pretty good. how does it know where to put $vat ?
Also, how do i handle the return? I expect to get a bunch of json data back from the api
check docs.guzzlephp.org/en/stable/quickstart.html#using-responses for Guzzle response object

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