php sending get request to get info - php

Question

I am trying to send from a php code running on a nginx server a get request to another remote django server. I am expecting to get data in REST API using serializer.
First if I open this link in my local browser:
http://192.168.2.0:8000/myapp/documents/
I will get:
HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, POST, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept
[
{
"id": "000e3588-9544-4df6-a589-cc0166242b5b",
"docfile": "/media/documents/2017/06/30/DSC03623.JPG"
},
{
"id": "3dc6be9f-8659-41d8-8282-b64662032da6",
"docfile": "/media/documents/2017/06/30/DSC03611_9KWbftQ.JPG"
},
{
"id": "28eacb2d-0798-46e9-b63e-10ff704482ce",
"docfile": "/media/documents/2017/06/30/DSC03555.JPG"
}
]
and this is exactly the info I want to get when i run my php code.
This is what I was working on, the commented parts are previous failed attempts:
<?php
echo "<h1>I am here</h1>";
$url = "http://192.168.2.0:8000/myapp";
/*$body = http_parse_message(http_get($url))->body;
$body = http_get($url);
echo $body;*/
/*$client = new Client($url);
$request = $client->newRequest('/documents/');
$response = $request->getResponse();
echo $response->getParsedResponse();*/
$r = new HttpRequest('http://192.168.2.0:8000/myapp/documents/', HttpRequest::METH_GET);
$r->send();
echo $r->getResponseCode();
if ($r->getResponseCode() == 200)
{
echo "<h2>we get 200 response</h2>";
}
?>
non of the above 3 attempts printed anything except the first echo
I am here

Answer 1

Ok, finally this is the code that worked for me:
<?php
$ch = curl_init('http://192.168.2.0:8000/myapp/documents/');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $data;
?>
it needs cUrl to work.
cUrl usual enabled in php. To double check
run this code as a script:
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
search in in the results if cUrl is working.