How do I make a request using HTTP basic authentication with PHP curl

Question

I m building a REST web service client in PHP and at the moment I m using curl to make requests to the service   How do I use curl to make authenticated  http basic  requests  Do I have to add the headers myself

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Yahoo has a tutorial on making calls to their REST services using PHP:

Make Yahoo! Web Service REST Calls with PHP

I have not used it myself, but Yahoo is Yahoo and should guarantee for at least some level of quality. They don't seem to cover PUT and DELETE requests, though.

Also, the User Contributed Notes to curl_exec() and others contain lots of good information.

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You want this   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT USERPWD   username          password       Zend has a REST client and zend http client and I m sure PEAR has some sort of wrapper  But its easy enough to do on your own   So the entire request might look something like this    ch   curl init  host   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT HTTPHEADER  array  Content-Type  application xml    additionalHeaders    curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT HEADER  1   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT USERPWD   username          password   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT TIMEOUT  30   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT POST  1   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT POSTFIELDS   payloadName   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  TRUE    return   curl exec  ch   curl close  ch

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If the authorization type is Basic auth and data posted is json then do like this   lt  php   data   array  username    gt   test       data u want to post                                                                     data string   json encode  data                                                                                        api key    your api key        password    xxxxxx                                                                                                                     ch   curl init     curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT URL   https   xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx        curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT CONNECTTIMEOUT  20   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT CUSTOMREQUEST   POST      curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT POST  true                                                                      curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT POSTFIELDS   data string                                                                     curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  true        curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT USERPWD   api key      password   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT SSL VERIFYPEER  false   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT HTTPAUTH  CURLAUTH BASIC    curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT HTTPHEADER  array          Accept  application json        Content-Type  application json                                                                               if curl exec  ch      false        echo  Curl error      curl error  ch                                                                                                            errors   curl error  ch                                                                                                                result   curl exec  ch    returnCode    int curl getinfo  ch  CURLINFO HTTP CODE   curl close  ch     echo  returnCode  var dump  errors   print r json decode  result  true

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Unlike SOAP  REST isn t a standardized protocol so it s a bit difficult to have a  REST Client    However  since most RESTful services use HTTP as their underlying protocol  you should be able to use any HTTP library  In addition to cURL  PHP has these via PEAR   HTTP Request2  which replaced  HTTP Request   A sample of how they do HTTP Basic Auth     This will set credentials for basic auth  request   new HTTP Request2  http   user password www example com secret       The also support Digest Auth     This will set credentials for Digest auth  request- gt setAuth  user    password   HTTP Request2  AUTH DIGEST

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The most simple and native way it s to use CURL directly   This works for me     lt  php  login    login    password    password    url    http   your url    ch   curl init    curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT URL  url   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER 1   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT HTTPAUTH  CURLAUTH BASIC   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT USERPWD    login  password     result   curl exec  ch   curl close  ch     echo  result

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There are multiple REST frameworks out there  I would strongly recommend looking into Slim mini Framework for PHP Here is a list of others

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For those who don t want to use curl     url  url    some url       Credentials  client id         client pass          HTTP options  opts   array  http    gt      array           method       gt   POST            header       gt  array   Content-type  application json    Authorization  Basic   base64 encode   client id  client pass              content    gt   some content              Do request  context   stream context create  opts    json   file get contents  url  false   context     result   json decode  json  true   if json last error      JSON ERROR NONE       return null     print r  result

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Other way with Basic method is   curl   curl init      public key    quot public key quot    private key    quot private key quot    curl setopt array  curl  array  CURLOPT URL   gt   quot https   url endpoint co login quot   CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER   gt  true  CURLOPT ENCODING   gt   quot  quot   CURLOPT MAXREDIRS   gt  10  CURLOPT TIMEOUT   gt  0  CURLOPT FOLLOWLOCATION   gt  true  CURLOPT HTTP VERSION   gt  CURL HTTP VERSION 1 1  CURLOPT CUSTOMREQUEST   gt   quot POST quot   CURLOPT HTTPHEADER   gt  array   quot Content-Type  application json quot    quot Authorization  Basic  quot  base64 encode  public key  quot   quot   private key          response   curl exec  curl   curl close  curl   echo  response

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CURLOPT USERPWD basically sends the base64 of the user password string with http header like below   Authorization  Basic dXNlcjpwYXNzd29yZA     So apart from the CURLOPT USERPWD you can also use the HTTP-Request header option as well like below with other headers    headers   array       Content-Type application json        Authorization  Basic    base64 encode  user password       lt ---    curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT HTTPHEADER   headers

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Michael Dowling s very actively maintained Guzzle is a good way to go  Apart from the elegant interface  asynchronous calling and PSR compliance  it makes the authentication headers for REST calls dead simple      Create a client with a base URL  client   new GuzzleHttp Client   base url    gt   http   myservices io         Send a request to http   myservices io status with basic authentication  response    client- gt get   status     auth    gt    username    password        See the docs

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You just need to specify CURLOPT HTTPAUTH and CURLOPT USERPWD options    curlHandler   curl init      userName    postman    password    password    curl setopt array  curlHandler        CURLOPT URL   gt   https   postman-echo com basic-auth       CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER   gt  true       CURLOPT HTTPAUTH   gt  CURLAUTH BASIC      CURLOPT USERPWD   gt   userName          password        response   curl exec  curlHandler   curl close  curlHandler     Or specify header    curlSecondHandler   curl init     curl setopt array  curlSecondHandler        CURLOPT URL   gt   https   postman-echo com basic-auth       CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER   gt  true       CURLOPT HTTPHEADER   gt             Authorization  Basic     base64 encode  userName          password               response   curl exec  curlSecondHandler   curl close  curlSecondHandler     Guzzle example   use GuzzleHttp Client  use GuzzleHttp RequestOptions    userName    postman    password    password     httpClient   new Client      response    httpClient- gt get       https   postman-echo com basic-auth                 RequestOptions  AUTH   gt    userName   password            print r  response- gt getBody  - gt getContents       See https   github com andriichuk php-curl-cookbook basic-auth

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