Curl request with array values as input for query (GET) params - php

Question

I have output from an array I would like to use as input in a PHP Curl request. Do I store them as another array and loop through the array with the Curl request?
Here is the output from the array:
foreach ($threadsarray['threads'] as $thread) {
print $thread['id']."<br />";
}
These are values I would like to use as input for Curl (obviously these values are different every time depending on the output for each loop above):
178369845
291476958
224408290
270960091
270715888
270513013
229639500
229630641
215503057
214314923
I want to execute a curl request for each of those thread id's...
Here is how I am building the Curl request:
$url2 = 'https://api.website.com/endpoint';
$data2 = array (
'specialkey' => '123abcd789xyz',
'anotherparam' => 'Brown',
'locale' => 'en-US',
'thread_id' => array (
$thread['id']
)
);
//build the query string because this is a get request
$params2 = '';
foreach($data2 as $key2=>$value2)
$params2 .= $key2.'='.$value2.'&';
$params2 = trim($params2, '&');
// Excecute the curl request
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url2.'?'.$params2 );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 'false');
$mycurlresult = curl_exec($ch);
echo '<pre>';
$resultarray = json_decode($mycurlrequest, TRUE);
print_r($resultarray);
echo '</pre>';
if (FALSE === $mycurlrequest)
throw new Exception(curl_error($ch), curl_errno($ch));
I can't seem to build the request string correctly...what am I missing?

Answer 1

I can't really test this, but I'd suggest something like this. First, set up your curl, and create an array with an empty placeholder for thread_id.
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 'false');
$url2 = 'https://api.website.com/endpoint';
$data2 = array(
'specialkey' => '123abcd789xyz',
'anotherparam' => 'Brown',
'locale' => 'en-US',
'thread_id' => ''
);
Then loop over your array. For each item, replace the thread_id key in the $data2 parameters array with that item's id, build the query using http_build_query and execute the request.
foreach ($threadsarray['threads'] as $thread) {
$data2['thread_id'] = $thread['id']; // add the current id
$params2 = http_build_query($data2); // build the new query
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url2.'?'.$params2 );
$mycurlresult = curl_exec($ch);
echo '<pre>';
$resultarray = json_decode($mycurlrequest, TRUE);
print_r($resultarray);
echo '</pre>';
if (FALSE === $mycurlrequest)
throw new Exception(curl_error($ch), curl_errno($ch));
}