来自API的curl请求与php

Question

I need to get data from an API using curl in PHP, but I have no experience with this?

I've been using PHP for a while now (beginer/intermediate level), but I don't know how to use the curl command or how to make a PHP version of this.

All I know of the API is that to get a list of all the books I kan use:

curl --request GET \
--url 'http://example.com/{identifier}'

using "main" as the {identifier}

This is supposed to give me a list of alle the books, and then I can use

curl --request GET \
--url 'http://example.com/feed/{identifier}'

to get the (meta) data of the books (Title, Author, Description, Year, Cover)

I've tried using $curl = curl_init("http://example.com/feed/main"); and then using curl_setopt_array($curl, array() to get the data, but i get an "WARNING curl_init() has been disabled for security reasons" error.

I'm totally lost and starting from scratch on these API/curl calls...

Hope someone can explain it to me?

(using Xampp on Windows)

Answer 1

First enable curl for your xamp. To do so follow the steps
1. Go to C:\Program Files\xampp\php\php.ini
2. Un-comment the following line on your php.ini file by removing the semicolon.
;extension=php_curl.dll to extension=php_curl.dll
3. Restart your apache server.

Then user thr curl like

$url= "http://example.com/feed/main";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, ""); // this will handle gzip content
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
print $result;