Question

I am trying to get access to SocialCast’s API from PHP.
They have just one example, done with curl:

# Curl Example
curl -X POST -d 'password=demo&email=[e-mail]' -v https://demo.socialcast.com/api/authentication.xml

How do I perform the login with PHP?

Here is the API documentation:
http://developers.socialcast.com/api-documentation/http-basic-authentication/#authentication_api_create

Answer 1

You probably want to use php curl wrapper http://php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php

Something like this:

 $ch = curl_init("https://demo.socialcast.com/api/authentication.xml");
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "password=demo&email=[e-mail]");
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION , 1);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER , 0);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);  
 $resp = curl_exec($ch);