How to call APIs from PHP: file_get_contents, cURL, Guzzle and SDKs

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There are several ways to make API calls from PHP. In this video we’ll learn how to use each one, along with their advantages and disadvantages.

We’ll cover the file_get_contents function, cURL, Guzzle and SDKs.

Details of the resources shown in the video and all the code used are below, including links to the RESTful APIs used.

Resources:
Testing API:
https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/

file_get_contents:
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php
https://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.httpresponseheader.php
https://www.php.net/manual/en/filesystem.configuration.php#ini.allow-url-fopen

cURL:
https://curl.se/
https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-getinfo.php

Guzzle:
https://docs.guzzlephp.org/

SDKs:
https://stripe.com/docs/libraries#server-side-libraries
https://stripe.com/docs/api/customers?langphp

Code shown in the video:
https://gist.github.com/daveh/c61fbe671894a7931d88a5ca82734921

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00:00 Introduction
00:38 file_get_contents
07:06 cURL
14:22 Guzzle
19:30 SDKs
24:22 Summary

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