Not getting individual data using curl - php

Question

i am trying to get indivdual data using curl from this website http://dummy.restapiexample.com/ .. I use the following code to get all data
<?php
$url='http://dummy.restapiexample.com/api/v1/employees';
$my_curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($my_curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($my_curl, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($my_curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($my_curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($my_curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
$my_data = curl_exec($my_curl);
$my_json = json_decode($my_data);
echo '<pre>'; print_r($my_json ); echo '</pre>';
?>
1) This is working . But i want to get the indvidual data , so i tried to chage url and use the same code
$url="http://dummy.restapiexample.com/api/v1/employee/1"
But it is not working .
2) Also i try to create a new record , that is working
$data = array("name" => "Hagridbo", "salary" => "123", "age" => "36");
$data_string = json_encode($data);
$ch = curl_init('http://dummy.restapiexample.com/api/v1/create');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_string);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
'Content-Type: application/json',
'Content-Length: ' . strlen($data_string))
);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
But how can i get the response like data is inserted ? what data is inserted ?

Answer 1

1. Regarding individual employee data is not coming
If you look to the http://dummy.restapiexample.com/api/v1/employees, you will see that employee id 1 is not there. That's why you are not getting any data.
for example check data of this link:- http://dummy.restapiexample.com/api/v1/employee/20276
Also it seems that v1/employees API data changing on a regular interval.
2. Regarding created an employee successfully, but not getting any response.
do var_dump($result); after $result = curl_exec($ch);and see what it give you. I think it will give you a json data response of added user.
I said it based on details of that API link, check here: http://dummy.restapiexample.com/create