how to use curl request code example

Example 1: curl get example

curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X GET http://hostname/resource

Example 2: how to call api using curl method

// create & initialize a curl session
$curl = curl_init();

// set our url with curl_setopt()
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "api.example.com");

// return the transfer as a string, also with setopt()
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

// curl_exec() executes the started curl session
// $output contains the output string
$output = curl_exec($curl);

// close curl resource to free up system resources
// (deletes the variable made by curl_init)
curl_close($curl);