Postmate API not working - php

Question

I am using postmates API for my book store.
I am using their test credentials, but I don't know how to use it. Kindly guide me how can I make a basic api call.
I am using PHP. I want to send post data using cURL
Thank you
<?php
$url = "https://api.postmates.com/v1/customers/my-customer-key/delivery_quotes";
$uname = "my-api-key";
$pwd = null;
$data = array(
'dropoff_address' => '20 McAllister St, San Francisco, CA 94102',
'pickup_address' => '101 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94105',
);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$uname:$pwd");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($process, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($process, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
$output = curl_exec($ch);
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
echo 'error:' . curl_error($ch);
}
curl_close($ch);
echo $output;
?>

Answer 1

From the documentation:
The Postmates API requires authentication by HTTP Basic Auth headers. Your API key should be included as the username. The password should be left empty.
This means you need to do something like the following:
$curl = curl_init();
$url = "http://whatever-this-should-be";
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
$username = "your-api-key-goes-here";
$password = ""; // leave this blank, as per the doc
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");
$res = curl_exec($curl);
You'll need to tweak other curl options to handle output, etc. but this is the core of what you'll need.
You might also want to check out this library if you want to do all of this at a slightly higher (i.e. easier) level.
UPDATE: Please be aware that this is just sample code. I wouldn't advocate storing your API key in your script file for production code!

Answer 2

I have made this code and it is working fine. Thank you all for answering my question.
$url = "https://api.postmates.com/v1/customers/my-customer-id/delivery_quotes";
$uname = "my-api-key";
$pwd = null;
$process = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($process, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded','Accept: application/json'));
curl_setopt($process, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($process, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $uname . ":" . $pwd);
curl_setopt($process, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
curl_setopt($process, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($process, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "dropoff_address=20 McAllister St, San Francisco, CA 94102&pickup_address=101 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94105");
curl_setopt($process, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($process, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
$return = curl_exec($process);
curl_close($process);
var_dump($return);