How to use a REST API from PHP using cURL | Full PHP cURL API tutorial

Learn how to use a REST API from PHP using cURL.

You'll learn the following:
- The basics of making API requests in PHP
- Encode and decode JSON data
- Send request headers
- Use different request methods (GET, POST, PATCH, DELETE etc.)
- Respond to different HTTP status codes

Code shown in the video:

Resources shown in the video:

00:00 Introduction
00:21 PHP cURL basics
01:42 Add request headers
04:14 Get a string response
05:11 Decode JSON
09:26 Endpoints with IDs
12:35 Setting endpoints
14:33 Multiple cURL options
18:38 POST requests
20:59 HTTP status code
26:57 PATCH requests
28:26 DELETE requests
30:37 Outro

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[rshelfo]

been struggling for days to just create a simple cURL POST api client, thankyou so much this has been the MOST informative breakdown of doing just that.

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[mazs]

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