I want to have a standalone PHP class where I want to have a function which calls an API through cURL and gets the response. Can someone help me in this?
Thanks.
Just use the below piece of code to get the response from restful web service url, I use social mention url.
$response = get_web_page("http://socialmention.com/search?q=iphone+apps&f=json&t=microblogs&lang=fr");
$resArr = array();
$resArr = json_decode($response);
echo "<pre>"; print_r($resArr); echo "</pre>";
function get_web_page($url) {
$options = array(
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, // return web page
CURLOPT_HEADER => false, // don't return headers
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true, // follow redirects
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10, // stop after 10 redirects
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "", // handle compressed
CURLOPT_USERAGENT => "test", // name of client
CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER => true, // set referrer on redirect
CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 120, // time-out on connect
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 120, // time-out on response
);
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt_array($ch, $options);
$content = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $content;
}