curl a url php api code example

Example 1: php curl with headers

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"http://www.example.com/process.php");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$vars);  //Post Fields
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

$headers = [
    'X-Apple-Tz: 0',
    'X-Apple-Store-Front: 143444,12',
    'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',
    'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate',
    'Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5',
    'Cache-Control: no-cache',
    'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8',
    'Host: www.example.com',
    'Referer: http://www.example.com/index.php', //Your referrer address
    'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0',
    'X-MicrosoftAjax: Delta=true'
];

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

$server_output = curl_exec ($ch);

curl_close ($ch);

print  $server_output ;

Example 2: create curl api request php with para

$data_array =  array(
      "customer"        => $user['User']['customer_id'],
      "payment"         => array(
            "number"         => $this->request->data['account'],
            "routing"        => $this->request->data['routing'],
            "method"         => $this->request->data['method']
      ),
);
$make_call = callAPI('POST', 'https://api.example.com/post_url/', json_encode($data_array));
$response = json_decode($make_call, true);
$errors   = $response['response']['errors'];
$data     = $response['response']['data'][0];