Call external API function from controller, LARAVEL 4

Question

I build an API on laravel 4, and it returns json results. For the API, I created one folder. Now i created another external project for the web application and what I want is to access the API functions from the laravel app controller. To be more clear, how can i make external API request from laravel controller?

Answer 1

You can use Guzzle:

Install it:

composer require guzzle/guzzle ~3.0

Create a client setting the base URL:

$client = new \Guzzle\Service\Client('http://api.github.com/users/');

Get your response:

$response = $client->get("users/$username")->send();

And display it:

dd($response);

But if you are trying to follow the MVC pattern, you should not do this directly in your controller, so create a service class, you call from your controller or your repositories, to do this work for you.