Make API Calls in PHP

make_api_calls_php.php

<?php

function CallAPI($method, $url, $data = false) {
    $curl = curl_init();

    switch ($method)
    {
        case "POST":
            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

            if ($data)
                curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
            break;
        case "PUT":
            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_PUT, 1);
            break;
        default:
            if ($data)
                $url = sprintf("%s?%s", $url, http_build_query($data));
    }

    // Optional Authentication:
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "username:password");

    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

    $result = curl_exec($curl);

    curl_close($curl);

    return $result;
}
// Get request
$get_response = CallAPI('GET', 'http://example.com');

echo $get_response;

// Post request
$data = array();
$data['name'] = 'joashp';
$data['email'] = 'joashp@example.com';

$post_response = CallAPI('POST', 'http://example.com', $data);

echo $post_response;

?>