PHP

PHP cURL request

function &web_curl_http($url) 
{  
   $c = curl_init();
   curl_setopt( $c , CURLOPT_URL , $url);
   curl_setopt( $c , CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux Centos 7;) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36");
   curl_setopt( $c , CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
   curl_setopt( $c , CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
   curl_setopt( $c , CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
   curl_setopt( $c , CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10000); // 10 sec
   $data = curl_exec($c);
   curl_close($c);
   return $data;
}

php curl request

$ch = curl_init();
$curlConfig = array(
    CURLOPT_URL            => "http://www.example.com/yourscript.php",
    CURLOPT_POST           => true,
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS     => array(
        'field1' => 'some date',
        'field2' => 'some other data',
    )
);
curl_setopt_array($ch, $curlConfig);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

API call in PHP using cURL

// Method: POST, PUT, GET etc
// Data: array("param" => "value") ==> index.php?param=value

function CallAPI($method, $url, $data = false)
{
    $curl = curl_init();

    switch ($method)
    {
        case "POST":
            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

            if ($data)
                curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
            break;
        case "PUT":
            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_PUT, 1);
            break;
        default:
            if ($data)
                $url = sprintf("%s?%s", $url, http_build_query($data));
    }

    // Optional Authentication:
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "username:password");

    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

    $result = curl_exec($curl);

    curl_close($curl);

    return $result;
}