CURL with JSON from laravel to API - php

Question

I am trying to implement an API call from my system, and the API has an example that looks like this:
curl -u "<brugernavn>:<password>" -XPOST http://distribution.virk.dk/cvr-permanent/_search -d'
{ "from" : 0, "size" : 1,
"query": {
"term": {
"cvrNummer": 10961211
}
}
}
'
Now i want to turn this in to php code. Im thinking it will look something like this:
public function requestApiV2($vat){
// Start cURL
$ch = curl_init();
// Determine protocol
$protocol = 'http';
$parameters = json(
{ "from" : 0, "size" : 1,
"query": {
"term": {
"cvrNummer": $vat
}
}
}
);
// Set cURL options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $protocol . '://distribution.virk.dk/cvr-permanent/_search' . http_build_query($parameters));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
// Parse result
$result = curl_exec($ch);
// Close connection when done
curl_close($ch);
// Parse from json to array
$data = json_decode($result, true);
}
I can't test this yet, as I still need to acquire username and password from the API, but I am also uncertain about how I send the username and password along with the request in the correct way. Is there a CURLOPT for this as well?
I am also uncertain about if my parameters are implemented the right way with the json like that.
thank you :)

Answer 1

use Guzzle library. Laravel has included the Guzzle library so you dont need to install it
With Guzzle, the below will do
use GuzzleHttp\Client;
public function requestApiV2($vat){
$client = new Client([
// Base URI is used with relative requests
'base_uri' => 'http://distribution.virk.dk/,
]);
$response = $client->post('cvr-permanent/_search', [
'auth' => ['username', 'password'],
'json' => [
'from' => 0,
'size' => 1,
'query' => [
'term' => [
'cvrNumber' => $vat
]
]
]
]);
$body = $response->getBody();
dd($body);
}