How do I make an api call in PHP

Question

I tested an API using postman. Using, postman, I managed to generate a token.

From postman, I managed to get all the data of a user using the following with the following details via a GET request:

https://example.example.co.za/api/consumers/get?id=567675675&[email protected]

Under Authorization type, I selected "Bearer token" and pasted the Token in its respective field.

When I click send, I get a success response with the user data.

In PHP, how can I do the same api call (using the id,email and token) inside a php function?

I tried this:

curl_setopt_array($curl, array( CURLOPT_URL => "example.example.co.za/api/consumers/[email protected]&id=567675675", CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, CURLOPT_ENCODING => "", CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET", CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "", CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array( "Accept: */*", "Authorization: Bearer jhgukfytjfytdytfjgjyfytfjkugfyfdhtklhkugjf", "Cache-Control: no-cache", "Connection: keep-alive", "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded", ), )); $response = curl_exec($curl); $err = curl_error($curl); curl_close($curl); return $response;

But when I view the page, instead of the user data, I see this:

How do I make the API call inside a function to get the same result that I have on postman in PHP?

It's a redirect you are seeing. What's the actual URL look like? — mighty_dev
– mighty_dev, Commented Aug 26, 2019 at 14:28
@MarkusZeller curl is flexible, it tries to parse the URL similarly to the way browsers do in the address bar. So it will figure out that example.example.co.za is the domain and the scheme defaults to http:. The redirect is presumably the server try to switch it to https: — Barmar
– Barmar, Commented Aug 26, 2019 at 14:32
I combined @MarkusZeller comment with Bob's answer and now I am able to see the data, — Sidney Sousa
– Sidney Sousa, Commented Aug 26, 2019 at 14:41

bob · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-26 14:28:49Z

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You need to follow the location

CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true

https://www.php.net/manual/de/function.curl-setopt.php

answered Aug 26, 2019 at 14:28

bob

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Muhammed Shihabudeen Labba A · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-26 14:33:14Z

Please find a proper CURL call here.

 $url = "https://example.example.co.za/api/consumers/get?id=567675675&[email protected]"; $curl = curl_init(); // OPTIONS: curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array( 'APIKEY: 111111111111111111111', 'Content-Type: application/json', )); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC); // EXECUTE: $result = curl_exec($curl); if(!$result){die("Connection Failure");} curl_close($curl);

what if I want the api key to be stored in a variable first? How would the full snippet look like?

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