Testing the EPrints RESTful API for Users

eprints_rest.php

<?php
# @name: eprints_rest.php
# @version: 0.1
# @creation_date: 2019-07-22
# @license: The MIT License <https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>
# @author: Simon Bowie <sb174@soas.ac.uk>
# @purpose: Testing the EPrints RESTful API
?>
<?php

	$baseurl = 'xxxxxxxx';
	$service = 'user';
	$user_id = 'xxxxxxxx';
	$function = 'ref_category.xml';
	$username = 'xxxxxxxx';
	$password = 'xxxxxxxx';

	$fullurl = 'http://' . $baseurl . '/' . $service . '/' . $user_id . '.xml';
	
	#GET using cURL
	$ch = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $fullurl);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, urlencode($username) . ':' . urlencode($password));
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'GET');
	$response = curl_exec($ch);
	if (!curl_exec($ch)) {
		die('Error: "' . curl_error($ch) . '" - Code: ' . curl_errno($ch));
	}
	curl_close($ch);

	$result = new SimpleXMLElement($response);

	print_r($response);
?>