Http Request with PHP CURL - php

Question

I need to perform an Http Request with the CURL method.
Here is the documentation of the service I have to connect with.
In order to invoke an API method, the client makes an HTTPS POST request on
https://app.kigo.net/api/ra/v1/method.
The request Content-Type header must be set to application/json and the post data (HTTP request body) must hold a JSON representation of input data.
Example of a valid HTTP request:
POST /api/ra/v1/ping HTTP/1.0
Host: app.kigo.net
Authorization: Basic dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ=
Content-Type: application/json
{
"PING" : "PONG"
}
The question is:
How to do it with CURL?

Answer 1

You need the SSL options for the https connection
followlocation will follow any redirects
return_transfer will save the response in a variable
$url = 'https://app.kigo.net/api/ra/v1/ping';
$headers = array( 'Authorization' => 'Basic dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ=', 'Content-Type' => 'application/json' );
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "PING=PONG");
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
print_r( $result );