curl php example

1// set post fields
2$post = [
3    'username' => 'user1',
4    'password' => 'passuser1',
5    'gender'   => 1,
6];
7
8$ch = curl_init('http://www.example.com');
9curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
10curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);
11
12// execute!
13$response = curl_exec($ch);
14
15// close the connection, release resources used
16curl_close($ch);
17
18// do anything you want with your response
19var_dump($response);

1<?php
2
3$post = [
4    'username' => 'user1',
5    'password' => 'passuser1',
6    'gender'   => 1,
7];
8$ch = curl_init();
9curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.domain.com');
10curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
11curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($post));
12$response = curl_exec($ch);
13var_export($response);
14

1PHP cURL GET Request
2A GET request retrieves data from a server. This can be a website’s HTML, an API response or other resources.
3
4<?php
5
6$cURLConnection = curl_init();
7
8curl_setopt($cURLConnection, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://hostname.tld/phone-list');
9curl_setopt($cURLConnection, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
10
11$phoneList = curl_exec($cURLConnection);
12curl_close($cURLConnection);
13
14$jsonArrayResponse - json_decode($phoneList);

1function getUrl($url){
2    $ch = curl_init($url);
3    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
4    $response = curl_exec($ch);
5    curl_close($ch);
6    return $response;
7}   

1function makeAPICall($url){
2
3        
4        $handle = curl_init();
5
6         
7        // Set the url
8        curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
9        // Set the result output to be a string.
10        curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
11         
12        $output = curl_exec($handle);
13         
14        curl_close($handle);
15         
16        echo $output;
17    return $output;
18    }

1function callAPI($method, $url, $data){
2   $curl = curl_init();
3   switch ($method){
4      case "POST":
5         curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
6         if ($data)
7            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
8         break;
9      case "PUT":
10         curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT");
11         if ($data)
12            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);			 					
13         break;
14      default:
15         if ($data)
16            $url = sprintf("%s?%s", $url, http_build_query($data));
17   }
18   // OPTIONS:
19   curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
20   curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
21      'APIKEY: 111111111111111111111',
22      'Content-Type: application/json',
23   ));
24   curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
25   curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
26   // EXECUTE:
27   $result = curl_exec($curl);
28   if(!$result){die("Connection Failure");}
29   curl_close($curl);
30   return $result;
31}