Slim framework - Call external API

Question

I'm completely new to Slim Framework 2 and I would like to make an HTTP call to an external API.

It would simply something like: GET http://website.com/method

Is there a way to do this using Slim or do I have to use curl for PHP?

Answer 1

You can build an API using Slim Framework. To consume other API, you can use PHP Curl.

So for example:

<?php

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://website.com/method");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);            // No header in the result 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); // Return, do not echo result   

// Fetch and return content, save it.
$raw_data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

// If the API is JSON, use json_decode.
$data = json_decode($raw_data);
var_dump($data);

?>