How to use a REST API from PHP using cURL | Full PHP cURL API tutorial
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- Опубликовано: 6 июн 2024
- Learn how to use a REST API from PHP using cURL.
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You'll learn the following:
- The basics of making API requests in PHP
- Encode and decode JSON data
- Send request headers
- Use different request methods (GET, POST, PATCH, DELETE etc.)
- Respond to different HTTP status codes
Code shown in the video:
github.com/daveh/php-curl-cru...
Resources shown in the video:
www.php.net/manual/en/book.cu...
docs.github.com/en/rest
picocss.com/
00:00 Introduction
00:21 PHP cURL basics
01:42 Add request headers
04:14 Get a string response
05:11 Decode JSON
09:26 Endpoints with IDs
12:35 Setting endpoints
14:33 Multiple cURL options
18:38 POST requests
20:59 HTTP status code
26:57 PATCH requests
28:26 DELETE requests
30:37 Outro
#PHP #API #cURL 
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Your tutorials are best, Dave!
Keep up the good work!
great tutorial, Dave! Was just googling for this earlier today, and you posted this tonight! Cheers
This gives such clear descriptions and full explanations of what you are doing and why at every step. Wonderful content. Thank you!
Enjoyed your video. I'm trying to get back into PHP after a very long hiatus (PHP 4) . Thanks for your videos for seeing what's new under the sun.
Your video tutorial is one of the best out there. Thank you for walking through and explaining the process in a slow, understandable method. I'm a subscriber!
Clear, concise, spot on!,,,, thank you very much for passing it on..
been struggling for days to just create a simple cURL POST api client, thankyou so much this has been the MOST informative breakdown of doing just that.
and unlike most other online resources, you dont write the code line by line, you build the app as it should be built. Amazing work
Easy to understand, Love it, Thank you Dave. 👍
Thank you!! such a neat & clean tutorial.
Just what I was looking for! Thanks a lot.
Amazing tutorial Dave.. very well explained..
Thank you for this explanation. This helped me so much.
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thanks for this tutorial it's super useful keep it up
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you help me a lot! thank you !
thanks for your effort this is helpful
You sir, display such a clean and proper way of teaching. It is such a relief to find videos with these topics on RUclips that are spoken in proper English.
Although I respect every individual that commits his/her time to produce free educational content, I am quite disappointed by the utter polution that exists on RUclips nowadays. I am speaking of all the educational videos that seem to be produced with the proper use of the English language at first (e.g. English title, English thumbnail, English useraccount, English description) but once started only lead to disappointment because the speaker is someone who barely speaks understandable English.
I say this with a certain level of understanding yet quite the amount of resent because it makes my personal user experience on RUclips worse than it was before.
Long story short, Dave Hollingworth, you are a godsend and I thank you for your videos!
Thank you so much for your kind words Johnny!
Nicely explained!
Very good video, keep on the good work :)
Another excellent video
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Thank you
Thanks for the great content \o/
Thank you.
this is gold
Hi Dave, great video, thank you. was trying to show other details for the repository like the files. any hints would be appreciated. thanks
You can adapt the code that shows a 404 to allow other URL segments, or use a third-party router if you have a lot of resource endpoints
Hi Dave! I love your tutorials and I learned a lot from it. However, I am struggling in show.php because of undefined array in dl part.
Try comparing your code to the source code linked to in the description, see if there's a typo in your code maybe
Hi, A nice video, thank you. It helped a lot. How about making a video on retreaving data from an API with PHP/Curl and saving that data to a database, then retreaving the data and displaying it in HTML (for example on a users profile page). I'm thinking more of dynamic applications like Joomla.
Hey! Have you been able to work this out? I'm currently working on a problem that would require the same. But from what i can tell, if you isolate the variable names, you can run insert statements into your db in a straightforward manner.
Great tutorial … tried it to get data from Notion but struggling to display data from their array like you did with repository … can you make a tutorial for that?
Not familiar with Notion but will take a look and add it to my list, thank you!
This is great. I've implemented this and your tutorial on creating a restful API in PHP, but I can't get cURL to connect to my API. For some reason, whether it's localhost or a proper server, because both are on the same server, it just won't connect. I think it could be some sort of firewall issue or maybe a PHP setting I don't know about. Any help on that would be appreciated.
What happens when you try and connect, do you get any error messages at all?
@@dave-hollingworth No, nothing, which is the most frustrating part! The cURL response is just empty with a 200 code and the script at the other end somehow gets called but also receives an empty request with no data. Bizarre!
@@philadams9254 Try running the code from the video, there's a link in the description, see if that makes a difference - if so, try comparing yours to that code, see if you can spot a discrepancy that might be causing the error
I feel so stupid. I'm getting a blank screen. On my wamp (windows 11 display_errors=On) as well as on my live server. I am at a complete loss here. PHP directly copied, with new github access token.
I solved it. I went to work to hasty (which of course is never good combined with late night coding). I dowloaded your code from github and used file init_curl. Did paste the access token header but forgot to paste the url. In my production curl project I got a blank screen as well, while everything worked fine in Postman. Until I added this line CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => false, I received data (so relieved). Felt helpless for 2 days. In any case, Dave Hollingworth and many thanks. Will be watching a lot more excellent tutorials from you in the future.
Question: at 6:47 in running the foreach function, how do I begin troubleshooting if my code doesn't isolate the specific fields I'm interested in as yours did?
Try printing out the contents of the various variables you're using before, during and after the loop using var_dump for example
@@dave-hollingworth Lemme try that out. also some of the variables I'm looking for are nested within the primary array... How do I go about that?
var_dump will print out the full contents of a multidimensional array, and you can call it from within a loop
@@dave-hollingworth Hey Dave, I'm still having trouble isolating specific fields in my array response (my array response is very nested). For some reason it's not responding like in the tutorial with I identify the array indexes... I'm not sure why or whether it could be because of the structure of my array.
@@lilliannjihia8557 Try debugging it by using print_r for various different levels of the array
hi bro, I have a question. How to curl without reload page?
cURL is called on the server, so you could call a page that used cURL using Ajax, or call the API directly from JavaScript
Hi , i have a little question , when i try to echo some entities Like in the vedio for fullname name and discerption i get the error Cannot access offset of type string on string anyone have any ideas? Thank you in advance .
It means you're trying to use a string as an array: stackoverflow.com/a/20271518
What is IDE? Very simple and powerful)
I use Atom - atom.io/
@@dave-hollingworth as ATOM is getting retired this December, did you decide on a new IDE? im just starting to learn and would be interested on which alternative i might look for.
@@battowsai I recommend Visual Studio Code, it's free and cross platform. (I'm still going to use Atom for my videos for the foreseeable future as it's very minimalist and works well for video tutorials, but if you're coding yourself, I would use VSCode)
@@dave-hollingworth thank You for the answer. I guess i will try atom for the first project. This Tutorial will help me alot. The only problem i habe is that i Need to call three different rest api and compare the items.
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