Example of using CURL to GET a response
$Url = "mydomain.org/somefile.php?MyParameter1=abc&MyParameter2=2";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $Url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, true); //You don't have to include this for it to work as GET
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true); //Follow any page redirects etc (optional)
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); //<<<Include this for the output of curl to go to the curl_exec() output below instead of the browser screen
$CurlResult= curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
//If your output is json then you can decode it with this:
$DecodedJson = json_decode($CurlResult);
echo "CurlResult: ";
print_r($CurlResult);
echo "<br>DecodedJson: ";
print_r($DecodedJson);GET with query parameters loaded as an array
They are still added to the URL, but this method lets you load them as an array
$QueryParameters = [
'param1' => 'value1',
'param2' => 'value2'
];
$Url = "mydomain.org/somefile.php";
$Url .= '?' . http_build_query($QueryParameters); //Append query parameters to URL
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $Url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, true); //You don't have to include this for it to work as GET
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true); //Follow any page redirects etc (optional)
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); //<<<Include this for the output of curl to go to the curl_exec() output below instead of the browser screen
$CurlResult= curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
//If your output is json then you can decode it with this:
$DecodedJson = json_decode($CurlResult);
echo "CurlResult: ";
print_r($CurlResult);
echo "<br>DecodedJson: ";
print_r($DecodedJson);
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