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A simple method that uses CURL to send a request to an API and receive its response
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// Method: POST, PUT, GET etc | |
// Data: array("param" => "value") ==> index.php?param=value | |
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; | |
} |
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