Bare Bones PHP cURL Client for API Consumption

bare_bones_curl_client.php

<?php
// Author: https://gitlab.com/u/jordanbsanders
// Taken from https://gitlab.com/snippets/14460
// Will want to determine protocol and domain dynamically.
$api_endpoint = 'http://my.domain.com/api/endpoint';
$post_data = array(
  'username' => urlencode('fake_username'),
  'password' => urlencode('fake_password')
);

$post_data_string = '';

foreach($post_data as $key => $value)
  $post_data_string .= $key . '=' . $value . '&';

rtrim($post_data_string, '&');

$handle = curl_init();

curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_URL, $api_endpoint);
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_POST, count($post_data));
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_data_string);

$result = curl_exec($handle);

curl_close($handle);

echo $result;