REST API Implementation Sample Code - php

Question

I know nothing about implementing an API. I do know PHP a bit. I have a situation where I need to call a REST API method to purge cache on a CDN server. Can somebody help me with some sample code?
The following is the sample request:
PUT <<url>>
Authorization: TOK:12345-12345
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Host: api.edgecast.com
Content-Length: 87
{
"MediaPath":"<<urlhere>>"
"MediaType":"3"
}
Can somebody help me with code to implement this rest api request?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I had to find the hard way too. This has been tested (with slight modifications from my original code)
//## GoGrid PHP REST API Call
define('TOKEN','XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXXX'); // found on the cdn admin My Settings
define('ACCOUNT_NUMBER','XXXX'); // found on the cdn admin Top Right corner
function purgeCacheFileFromCDN($urlToPurge) {
//## Build the request
$request_params = (object) array('MediaPath' => $urlToPurge, 'MediaType' => 8); // MediaType 8=small 3=large
$data = json_encode($request_params);
//## setup the connection and call.
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://api.edgecast.com/v2/mcc/customers/'.ACCOUNT_NUMBER.'/edge/purge');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PORT , 443);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT, 1); // For debugging
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE, 1); // no caching
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT, 1); // no caching
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Authorization: tok:'.TOKEN, 'Content-Type: application/json','Accept: application/json', 'Content-length: '.strlen($data)));
$head = curl_exec($ch);
$httpCode = curl_getinfo($ch);
curl_close($ch);
//## check if error
if ($httpCode['http_code'] != 200) {
echo 'Error reported: '.print_r(array($head,$httpCode),1); // output it to stdout this will be emailed to me via cron capture.
}
}

Answer 2

Was too lazy to write from the scratch so copied from amazingly pink site that Google advises in the first page of results.
$data = array("a" => $a);
$ch = curl_init($this->_serviceUrl . $id);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,http_build_query($data));
$response = curl_exec($ch);
if(!$response) {
return false;
}
PS: The source search request: http://www.google.ru/search?q=php+sample+put+request+curl

Answer 3

Here is my source gist for my fully implemented Grunt task for anyone else thinking about working with the EdgeCast API. You'll find in my example that I use a node module to execute the curl command which purges the CDN.
This was that I ended up with after spending hours trying to get an HTTP request to work within Node. I was able to get one working in Ruby and Python, but did not meet the requirements of this project.