Laravel Wordpress JSON REST API gives strange Curl error

Question

I'm trying to use laravel-wp-api to get the posts from a blog. When I use Postman with http://idareyou.ee/blog//wp-json/wp/v2/posts I get a 200 OK HTTP response and Postman shows the JSON result.

The following Laravel BlogController getPosts() method prints in the browser this Curl error:

{"error":{"message":"cURL error 6: Couldn't resolve host '\u003Cwp_location\u003E' (see http:\/\/curl.haxx.se\/libcurl\/c\/libcurl-errors.html)"},"results":[],"total":0,"pages":0}

<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Http\Requests;
use WpApi;
class BlogController extends Controller
{
  public function getPosts()
  {

    $posts = WpApi::posts('http://idareyou.ee/blog//wp-json/wp/v2/posts');
    echo json_encode($posts,true); 

    //return view('pages.blog', ['active'=>'navBlog'])->with('posts', $posts  );
  }
}

Elsewhere in my app I am fetching successfully some pictures from Instagram API using the following. Do I need a similar 'fetchData' function in my BlogController?

function fetchData($url){
  $ch = curl_init();
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 20);
  $result = curl_exec($ch);
  curl_close($ch);
  return $result;
}

$result = fetchData("https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/.......");
$result = json_decode($result, true);
$lastFive = array_slice($result['data'], 0, 5);   // returns last 5 instagram pics

Can anybody give me any tips on what I'm doing wrong?

nibnut · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-30 21:01:49Z

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I would check the config file for this service - my guess is you need to set-up the endpoint (blog domain) for your calls. So once you run php artisan vendor:publish you should have a specific config file under app/config - see if there's a setting there you need to change.

Hope this helps!

answered Jan 30, 2017 at 21:01

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Dave Chambers Over a year ago

Thanks, I think you were right. I set the endpoint to 'endpoint' => ' http://idareyou.ee/blog//wp-json/', and now I get a 404 error {"error":{"message":"Client error: 404","code":404},"results":[],"total":0,"pages":0}

nibnut Over a year ago

Right - did you adjust your API call too, though? I suspect you now just pass in your relative path: $posts = WpApi::posts('wp/v2/posts'); (also, just to be safe, I'd remove the double slashes in your endpoint, before "wp-json": "idareyou.ee/blog/wp-json/")

Dave Chambers Over a year ago

Thanks. I now have the endpoint as 'endpoint' => 'http://idareyou.ee/blog/wp-json/', and the call as you suggested $posts = WpApi::posts('wp/v2/posts'); but I still get {"error":{"message":"Client error: 404","code":404},"results":[],"total":0,"pages":0}

nibnut Over a year ago

Sorry, not familiar with the laravel-wp-api service, so discovering along with you... I think you don't even need a url there. So try this instead: 'endpoint' => 'http://idareyou.ee/blog/wp-json/wp/v2/', and then $posts = WpApi::posts(); -- the only parameter to the ApApi::posts call is a page number. (as in to get page 2, $posts = WpApi::posts(2);)

Dave Chambers Over a year ago

Brilliant! You're a life saver. That works. Cheers

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