How to make http request to external service in Laravel5?

Question

I have an application in Laravel5. What I need is to be able to call an external api and then process the response from the api accordingly.

The response I will get in return is in the form as an xml tag as follows with either True or False

<statusCheck success="true"/>

Can someone point me to the right direction that how can I call to external api?

Note Please note that I want to make this request within a controller or model.

Take a look at the package guzzle

lukasgeiter
– lukasgeiter

2015-03-10 10:34:23 +00:00
Commented Mar 10, 2015 at 10:34 — lukasgeiter
– lukasgeiter, Commented Mar 10, 2015 at 10:34

Raviraj Chauhan · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-10 10:43:08Z

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Use GuzzleHttp to send the HTTP requests.

Download the package through composer:

"guzzlehttp/guzzle": "5.0.*@dev"

See the documetation on http://guzzle.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

answered Mar 10, 2015 at 10:43

Raviraj Chauhan

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Ghazanfar Mir Over a year ago

I have now downloaded the package, the question is what is the best way to be able to expose this package in Laravel5. I don't want to use require obviously in Laravel5 to have access to library

Raviraj Chauhan Over a year ago

Use class reference on the top of your controller class declaration. then create object of Client class. and that's it.

Raviraj Chauhan Over a year ago

use GuzzleHttp\Client;

JayminLimbachiya · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-23 10:53:01Z

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$client = new GuzzleHttp\Client(['base_uri' => 'https://foo.com/api/']);
$response = $client->request('GET', 'test');
$response = $client->request('GET', '/root');

return response()->download(public_path($response));

we have to user Guzzlehttp client plugin.

answered Mar 23, 2017 at 10:53

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