PHP Curl with flag for username/password - php

Question

Im trying to make a simple curl request to the desk.com api using PHP but having trouble getting a response. Below is their documentation.
$ curl https://yoursite.desk.com/api/v2/cases/:id \
-u email:password \
-H 'Accept: application/json'
Here is my PHP to try and accomplish the above
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://url.desk.com/api/v2/cases -u email:password");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 'Accept: application/json');
$output = curl_exec($ch);
var_dump($output);
curl_close($ch);
Ive barely used curl before so any help as to why I'm not getting a response would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Have you tried sending basic authorization?
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://url.desk.com/api/v2/cases");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 'Accept: application/json');
You also won't need the '-u' in your url, that is meant for command line curl.
Additionally, You'll need to replace ':id' with the ID of the case for the above to return a specific case. For example:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://url.desk.com/api/v2/cases/1");

Answer 2

Try this instead, be sure to define/replace $email and $password
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://url.desk.com/api/v2/cases");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "{$email}:{$password}");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 'Accept: application/json');
$output = curl_exec($ch);
var_dump($output);
curl_close($ch);