Consuming API endpoints with Laravel 5+ AND Guzzle\Http

guz.php

/*
Installation -> http://docs.guzzlephp.org/en/latest/overview.html#installation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GunXVUqvO-s
https://www.udemy.com/http-clients-with-laravel-use-and-consume-services-and-apis/


add Guzzle as a dependency using the composer.phar CLI:
php composer.phar require guzzlehttp/guzzle:~6.0

After installing, you need to require Composer's autoloader:
require 'vendor/autoload.php';


http://guzzle3.readthedocs.io/http-client/response.html#json-responses
http://docs.guzzlephp.org/en/latest/quickstart.html
*/
<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
use GuzzleHttp\Client;

class ProfessionalController extends Controller
{
    public function home()
    {
        return "professional public home";
    }
    public function getstate()
    {

        $client = new Client(['base_uri' => 'http://drefapi.com/']);  
        $response = $client->request('GET', 'api/user/city'); 
        $body = $response->getBody();
        $content =$body->getContents();
        $arr = json_decode($content,TRUE);
        //echo"<pre>";
        //print_r(get_class_methods($response));
        //print_r(get_class_methods($body));
        //print_r($arr);
        //echo"</pre>";
        //dd(json_decode($content,true));
        return $arr;

    }
}

<?php

Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('index');
});


Route::get('/cityAPI','ProfessionalController@getstate');

//Public routes
Route::get('/{drName}', function ($drName) {
    return "drName = ".$drName;
});


Route::get('/{drName}/articles', function ($drName) {
    echo $drName." All Articles home page";
    //return view('welcome');
});
Route::get('/{drName}/articles/{id}', function ($drName,$id) {
    echo $drName." Articles id=".$id;
    //return view('welcome');
});

//Route::get('/showStateAPI', function () {
//    echo "testerota";
//    dd();
//});



//Private routes.
//Must to be logged to get access to this portion