curl using php for box view api - php

Question

Hi I am new to cURL and I don't know how to use it in PHP. I have tried a lot and still in the position where I started. I am trying to do really simple task. Can anyone help me in converting the below cURL command into PHP code....
Please help...
cURL code:
curl https://view-api.box.com/1/documents
-H "Authorization: Token YOUR_API_KEY"
-H "Content-Type: application/json"
-d '{"url": "https://cloud.box.com/shared/static/4qhegqxubg8ox0uj5ys8.pdf"}'
-X POST
I need the exact same code to be implemented using PHP. Please help...

Answer 1

Hello I am not totally sure if you should get a response from this call but if you do this should work:
<?php
//Set header information
$headers = array(
"POST HTTP/1.1",
"Content-type: application/json;",
"Authorization: YOUR_API_KEY"
);
//Initialize a curl connection
$ch = curl_init();
//Defines that you get an answer back
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
//Sets the url to call
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://cloud.box.com/shared/static/4qhegqxubg8ox0uj5ys8.pdf');
//Gives additional headers
curl_setopt($cl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
//Executes the curl call
$retrieved_data = curl_exec($ch);
//Closes the connection
curl_close($ch);
//$retrieved_data contains the answer from the curl call
print_r($retrieved_data);
?>
If you don't need a response comment the line with the returntransfer out.
Let me know if it didn't work or it did work :)