How to pass access key as an HTTP header using curl in php

Question

How can i send a CURL request mentioned below in PHP? What functions i will use in php?

$ curl -H 'X-Sifter-Token: 343b1b831066a40e308e0af92e0f06f0' \
-H 'Accept: application/json' \ 
'http://example.sifterapp.com/api/projects'

I have tried this code.. but its not working.. Please do the needful

$curlString = "";

$curlString .= "-H \"X-Sifter-Token: 343b1b831066a40e308e0af92e0f06f0\" \";

$curlString .= "-H \"Accept: application/json\" \";

$url="http://example.sifterapp.com/api/projects";


$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $curlString);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
print "Error: " . curl_error($ch);
} else {
// Show me the result
var_dump($data);
curl_close($ch);
}

LSerni · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-20 12:41:41Z

8

You do not use correctly CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER. From the manual:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php

CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER An array of HTTP header fields to set, in the format array('Content-type: text/plain', 'Content-length: 100')

So you would need:

  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
        'X-Sifter-Token: 343b1b831066a40e308e0af92e0f06f0',
        'Accept: application/json',
  ));

answered Sep 20, 2012 at 12:41

LSerni

57.7k10 gold badges70 silver badges110 bronze badges

Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

2 Comments

DeDav Over a year ago

Thanks for your reply. It completed the CURL request. But i am getting '301 Moved permanently' message. When i used var_dump($response),i got string(184). What all other php CURL function i need to use to complete this request. I am doing this for the first time.

LSerni Over a year ago

HTTP 301 might mean that your request is slightly off, e.g. you asked for projects instead of projects/. You can check this by having cURL output all the headers. Fixing the request is more performant; but you can probably have cURL automatically retry with the option to follow redirects (see the setopt man page).

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

How to pass access key as an HTTP header using curl in php

1 Answer 1

2 Comments

Your Answer

Hot Network Questions

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

1 Answer 1

2 Comments

Your Answer

Sign up or log in

Post as a guest

Related