Question

I’m wondering, is there an easy way to perform a REST API GET call? I’ve been reading about cURL, but is that a good way to do it?

I also came across php://input but I have no idea how to use it. Does anyone have an example for me?

I don’t need advanced API client stuff, I just need to perform a GET call to a certain URL to get some JSON data that will be parsed by the client.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can use file_get_contents if the fopen wrappers are enabled. See: http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php

If they are not, and you cannot fix that because your host doesn’t allow it, cURL is a good method to use.