How to call an API url from php?

Question

I'm trying to call an API (mapquest) url from a shared host.

The url works fine, as it shows the expected JSON response when pasted in a browser.

However, I can't make it work from a php page. I tried both curl and file_get_contents with no success.

I keep on getting HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request error...

Here is the code I use, which is quite basic...

    $ch=curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
    $result=curl_exec($ch);
    if(!$result){
        exit ('cURL ERROR: '.curl_error($ch));
    }
    return var_dump($result);

Opps you didn't set header..

Shravan Sharma
– Shravan Sharma

2015-03-31 10:21:11 +00:00
Commented Mar 31, 2015 at 10:21 — Shravan Sharma
– Shravan Sharma, Commented Mar 31, 2015 at 10:21
Are you sending all necessary headers?

Daan
– Daan

2015-03-31 10:21:15 +00:00
Commented Mar 31, 2015 at 10:21 — Daan
– Daan, Commented Mar 31, 2015 at 10:21

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:28:17Z

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Hello try some thing like this

$query = urlencode('where={"steps":9243}');
$ch = curl_init('https://api.parse.com/1/classes/Steps?'.$query);

curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,array('X-Parse-Application-Id: myApplicationID',
    'X-Parse-REST-API-Key: myRestAPIKey',
    'Content-Type: application/json'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

refer this link

Querying API through Curl/PHP

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:28

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answered Mar 31, 2015 at 10:27

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Yako · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-31 10:25:30Z

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I got it!

The url was composed of JSON data with spaces.

This part of the URL must be encoded with urlencode(), but not the full url.

It works both with curl and file_get_contents().

answered Mar 31, 2015 at 10:25

Yako

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sandeep soni · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-31 10:27:24Z

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Try below code

    $ch = curl_init();
    $curlConfig = array(
        CURLOPT_URL            => "http://www.bing.com/",
        CURLOPT_POST           => true,
        CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
        CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS     => array(
            'field1' => 'some date',
            'field2' => 'some other data',
        )
    );
    curl_setopt_array($ch, $curlConfig);
    echo $result = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);

answered Mar 31, 2015 at 10:27

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