Question

trying to do the equivalent of this in PHP – and failing :):

curl -H "X-abc-AUTH: 123456789" http://APIserviceProvider=http://www.cnn.com;

“123456789” is the API key. The command line statement works fine.

PHP code (does not work):

$urlToGet = "http://www.cnn.com";
$service_url = "http://APIserviceProvider=$urlToGet";

//header

 $contentType = 'text/xml';          //probably not needed
 $method = 'POST';                   //probably not needed
 $auth = 'X-abc-AUTH: 123456789';    //API Key

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $service_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT, true);

//does not work



// curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, Array('Content-type: ' . 
   // $contentType . '; auth=' . $auth));

    //works!   (THANKS @Fratyr for the clue):

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, Array($auth));

//this works too (THANKS @sergiocruz):

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
  'Some_custom_header: 0',
  'Another_custom_header: 143444,12'
));


//exec

$data = curl_exec($ch);
echo $data;
curl_close($ch);

Any ideas?

Answer 1

In order to get custom headers into your curl you should do something like the following:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
  'Some_custom_header: 0',
  'Another_custom_header: 143444,12'
));

Therefore the following should work in your case (given X-abc-AUTH is the only header you need to send over):

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
  'X-abc-AUTH: 123456789' // you can replace this with your $auth variable
));

If you need additional custom headers, all you have to do is add on to the array within the curl_setopt.

I hope this helps 🙂