How do I call an API in controller function

Question

I have a function in controller and I want to call an HTTP request passing url like GET request in AJAX but I couldn't figure how do I use it using php I tried this

public function sendAPIRequest()
{
    $url = "https://myapi.com?apikey=".$api."&message=".$message."&receiver=".$receiver;
    //This is what I tried
    file_get_contents($url);
    //But it didn't work
}

Possible duplicate of How to send a GET request from PHP?

Jirennor
– Jirennor

2017-04-30 09:56:39 +00:00
Commented Apr 30, 2017 at 9:56 — Jirennor
– Jirennor, Commented Apr 30, 2017 at 9:56
@ThomasSnijder yess it is possible bro! Thank you :)

Alen
– Alen

2017-04-30 10:30:11 +00:00
Commented Apr 30, 2017 at 10:30 — Alen
– Alen, Commented Apr 30, 2017 at 10:30

Mortada Jafar · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-30 09:58:01Z

1

you can use Guzzle Package for Laravel , Guzzle PHP

    $client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();
$res = $client->request('GET', "https://myapi.com?apikey=".$api."&message=".$message."&receiver=".$receiver);
echo $res->getStatusCode();
// 200
echo $res->getHeaderLine('content-type');
// 'application/json; charset=utf8'
echo $res->getBody();
// '{"id": 1420053, "name": "guzzle", ...}'

answered Apr 30, 2017 at 9:58

Mortada Jafar

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Alen Over a year ago

Do I have to like require anything? like composer require gizzle

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