How can PHP be used to request and process data from external sources like Amazon?

To request and process data from external sources like Amazon using PHP, you can utilize PHP's built-in cURL library to make HTTP requests to Amazon's API endpoints. You will need to obtain an API key from Amazon and use it in your requests. Once you receive the data, you can parse and process it as needed in your PHP code. 

<?php
$api_key = 'YOUR_AMAZON_API_KEY';
$endpoint = 'https://api.amazon.com/data';
$ch = curl_init($endpoint);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
    'Authorization: Bearer ' . $api_key
));

$response = curl_exec($ch);

if($response === false){
    echo 'Error: ' . curl_error($ch);
} else {
    $data = json_decode($response, true);
    // Process the data here
}

curl_close($ch);
?>

Keywords

PHP API cURL JSON Amazon API

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