CURL method to consume REST API

api.php

private function request($endpoint, $method='GET', $body=false) {
    $url = "https://example.com$endpoint";
    $token = 'API_TOKEN';
    $headers = [
       "Authorization: Token token=$token",
       "Content-Type: application/json";
    ];

    if($body!==false){
       if($method=='GET'){
          $url .= '?' . http_build_query($body);
       }
    }

    // Send request to Server
    $curl = curl_init($url);
    if($body!==false && $method!=='GET'){
       $body = json_encode($body);
       curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $body);
    }

    // To save response in a variable from server, set headers;
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, $method);

    // Get response
    if(!($curl_response = curl_exec($curl))){
       $return = [
          'message' => curl_error($curl)
       ];
    }else{
       $return = json_decode($curl_response, true);
    }
    curl_close($curl);
    return $return;
 }