Doing HTTP requests FROM Laravel to an external API

Based upon an answer of a similar question here:https://stackoverflow.com/a/22695523/1412268

Take a look at Guzzle

$client = new GuzzleHttp\Client();$res = $client->get('https://api.github.com/user', ['auth' =>  ['user', 'pass']]);echo $res->getStatusCode(); // 200echo $res->getBody(); // { "type": "User", ....

We can use package Guzzle in Laravel, it is a PHP HTTP client to send HTTP requests.

You can install Guzzle through composer

composer require guzzlehttp/guzzle:~6.0

Or you can specify Guzzle as a dependency in your project's existing composer.json

{   "require": {      "guzzlehttp/guzzle": "~6.0"   }}

Example code in laravel 5 using Guzzle as shown below,

use GuzzleHttp\Client;class yourController extends Controller {    public function saveApiData()    {        $client = new Client();        $res = $client->request('POST', 'https://url_to_the_api', [            'form_params' => [                'client_id' => 'test_id',                'secret' => 'test_secret',            ]        ]);        echo $res->getStatusCode();        // 200        echo $res->getHeader('content-type');        // 'application/json; charset=utf8'        echo $res->getBody();        // {"type":"User"...'}

You just want to call an external URL and use the results? PHP does this out of the box, if we're talking about a simple GET request to something serving JSON:

$json = json_decode(file_get_contents('http://host.com/api/stuff/1'), true);

If you want to do a post request, it's a little harder but there's loads of examples how to do this with curl.

So I guess the question is; what exactly do you want?