How can PHP access a server that provides a REST API?

To access a server that provides a REST API in PHP, you can use the cURL library to make HTTP requests to the API endpoints. You can send GET, POST, PUT, DELETE requests to interact with the API and retrieve or send data. Make sure to set the appropriate headers and parameters based on the API documentation. 

// Initialize cURL session
$ch = curl_init();

// Set the API endpoint URL
$url = "https://api.example.com/endpoint";

// Set cURL options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

// Execute the cURL session
$response = curl_exec($ch);

// Close cURL session
curl_close($ch);

// Handle the API response
if ($response === false) {
    echo "Error: " . curl_error($ch);
} else {
    echo $response;
}

Keywords

PHP server REST API cURL authentication

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