PHP Consuming RESTful APIs Fetching an HTTPS URL Problem You want to retrieve a secure URL. Solution Use any of the techniques providing a URL that begins with https. Discussion As long as PHP has been built with the Ope...

PHP Consuming RESTful APIs Fetching a URL with Arbitrary Headers Problem You want to retrieve a URL that requires specific headers to be sent with the request for the page. Solution Set the header stream context option when...

PHP Consuming RESTful APIs Fetching a URL with Cookies Problem You want to retrieve a page that requires a cookie to be sent with the request for the page. Solution Use the CURLOPT_COOKIE option with cURL:        $c = curl_...

PHP Consuming RESTful APIs Fetching a URL with an Arbitrary Method and POST Body Problem You want to request a URL using any method, such as POST, PUT, or DELETE. Your POST or PUT request may contain formatted data, such as JSON o...

PHP Consuming RESTful APIs Fetching a URL with the POST Method and Form Data Problem You want to submit a document using the POST method, passing data formatted as an HTML form. Solution Set the method and content stream con...

PHP Consuming RESTful APIs Fetching a URL with the GET Method Problem You want to retrieve the contents of a URL. For example, you want to include part of one site in another site’s content. Solution Provide the URL to file_get_...