Correct way to set Bearer token with CURL

Question

I get my bearer token from an API end point and set the following:

$authorization = "Bearer 080042cad6356ad5dc0a720c18b53b8e53d4c274" 

Next I want to use CURL to access the secure endpoint however I am unsure on how or where to set the Bearer token.

I have tried this but but it does not work:

 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json' , $authorization ));     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$post);     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);     $result = curl_exec($ch);     curl_close($ch);     return json_decode($result); 

EDIT:

According to the documentation, I am supposed to be using the bearer token as such: https://apigility.org/documentation/auth/authentication-oauth2

GET /oauth/resource HTTP/1.1 Accept: application/json Authorization: Bearer 907c762e069589c2cd2a229cdae7b8778caa9f07 

Answer 1

Replace:

$authorization = "Bearer 080042cad6356ad5dc0a720c18b53b8e53d4c274" 

with:

$authorization = "Authorization: Bearer 080042cad6356ad5dc0a720c18b53b8e53d4c274"; 

to make it a valid and working Authorization header.

Answer 2

This is a cURL function that can send or retrieve data. It should work with any PHP app that supports OAuth:

    function jwt_request($token, $post) {         header('Content-Type: application/json'); // Specify the type of data        $ch = curl_init('https://APPURL.com/api/json.php'); // Initialise cURL        $post = json_encode($post); // Encode the data array into a JSON string        $authorization = "Authorization: Bearer ".$token; // Prepare the authorisation token        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json' , $authorization )); // Inject the token into the header        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); // Specify the request method as POST        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post); // Set the posted fields        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); // This will follow any redirects        $result = curl_exec($ch); // Execute the cURL statement        curl_close($ch); // Close the cURL connection        return json_decode($result); // Return the received data      } 

Use it within one-way or two-way requests:

$token = "080042cad6356ad5dc0a720c18b53b8e53d4c274"; // Get your token from a cookie or database $post = array('some_trigger'=>'...','some_values'=>'...'); // Array of data with a trigger $request = jwt_request($token,$post); // Send or retrieve data