Getting Started with PHP
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This integration guide follows the Quick Start Guide. You should be able to consume the API by browsing the URL http://localhost:1337/api/restaurants.
If you haven't gone through the Quick Start Guide, the way you request a Strapi API with PHP remains the same except that you will not fetch the same content.
Create a PHP file
Be sure to have PHP installed on your computer.
touch strapi.php
We will use cURL, a built-in PHP extension that allows us to receive and send information via the URL syntax.
GET Request your collection type
Execute a GET request on the restaurant collection type in order to fetch all your restaurants.
Be sure that you activated the find permission for the restaurant collection type.
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://localhost:1337/api/restaurants');
Running the PHP file on the browser gives this response:
[{
"id": 1,
"name": "Biscotte Restaurant",
"description": "Welcome to Biscotte restaurant! Restaurant Biscotte offers a cuisine based on fresh, quality products, often local, organic when possible, and always produced by passionate producers.",
"created_at": "2021-03-31T11:37:16.964Z",
"updated_at": "2021-03-31T11:37:16.975Z",
"categories": [{
"id": 1,
"name": "French Food",
"created_by": 1,
"updated_by": 1,
"created_at": "2021-03-31T11:36:23.164Z",
"updated_at": "2021-03-31T11:36:23.172Z"
},
{
"id": 2,
"name": "Brunch ",
"published_at": "2021-03-07T10:10:19.608Z",
"created_at": "2021-03-07T10:10:14.477Z",
"updated_at": "2021-03-07T10:10:19.649Z"
}
]
}]
Example
<?php
function getRestaurants(){
$curl = curl_init(); //Initializes curl
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://localhost:1337/api/restaurants');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
'Content-Type: application/json'
]); // Sets header information for authenticated requests
$res = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
print_r($res);
}
getRestaurants();
POST Request your collection type
Execute a POST request on the restaurant collection type in order to create a restaurant.
Be sure that you activated the create permission for the restaurant collection type and the find permission for the category Collection type.
$restaurants = array(
'name' => 'Calabar Kitchen',
'description' => 'Omo, this is a place varieties soup with catfish🦈',
'categories' => [2]
);
// Initializes a new cURL session
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://localhost:1337/api/restaurants');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
// Set the CURLOPT_POST for POST request
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
Running the PHP file on the browser will give you this response:
[{
"id": 2,
"name": "Calabar Kitchen",
"description": "Omo, this is a place that varieties of soup with catfish🦈",
"published_at": "2021-03-14T11:23:13.251Z",
"created_at": "2021-03-14T11:23:13.260Z",
"updated_at": "2021-03-14T11:23:13.260Z",
"categories": [{
"id": 2,
"name": "Brunch ",
"published_at": "2021-03-14T09:22:58.909Z",
"created_at": "2021-03-14T09:22:51.893Z",
"updated_at": "2021-03-14T09:22:58.945Z"
}
]
}]
Example
<?php
function getRestaurants(){
$curl = curl_init(); //Initializes curl
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://localhost:1337/api/restaurants');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
'Content-Type: application/json'
]); // Sets header information for authenticated requests
$res = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
print_r($res);
}
function postRestaurant(){
$restaurants = array(
'name' => 'Calabar Kitchen',
'description' => 'Omo, this is a place that varieties of soup with catfish🦈',
'categories' => [2]
);
// Initializes a new cURL session
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://localhost:1337/api/restaurants');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
// Set the CURLOPT_POST for POST request
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($restaurants));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
'Content-Type: application/json'
]);
$res = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
print_r($res);
}
postRestaurant();
PUT Request your collection type
Execute a PUT request on the restaurant collection type in order to update the category of a restaurant.
Be sure that you activated the update permission for the restaurant collection type.
PUT Request is slightly different as we need to target the particular entry we want update. We do this by first making a request to http://localhost:1337/api/restaurants/1 and then update what we want to update. In this example, we are going to update "Biscotte Restaurant" to "Femoni Kitchen".
$restaurants = array(
'name' => 'Femoni Kitchen'
);
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://localhost:1337/api/restaurants/1');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'PUT');
Running the PHP file on the browser will give you this response:
[{
"id": 1,
"name": "Femoni Kitchen",
"description": "Welcome to Biscotte restaurant! Restaurant Biscotte offers a cuisine based on fresh, quality products, often local, organic when possible, and always produced by passionate producers.",
"created_at": "2021-03-31T11:37:16.964Z",
"updated_at": "2021-03-31T11:37:16.975Z",
"categories": [{
"id": 1,
"name": "French Food",
"created_by": 1,
"updated_by": 1,
"created_at": "2021-03-31T11:36:23.164Z",
"updated_at": "2021-03-31T11:36:23.172Z"
}
]
}]
Example
<?php
function getRestaurants(){
$curl = curl_init(); //Initializes curl
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://localhost:1337/api/restaurants');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
'Content-Type: application/json'
]); // Sets header information for authenticated requests
$res = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
print_r($res);
}
function postRestaurant(){
$restaurants = array(
'name' => 'Calabar Kitchen',
'description' => 'Omo, this is a place that varieties of soup with catfish 🦈',
'categories' => [2]
);
// Initializes a new cURL session
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://localhost:1337/api/restaurants');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
// Set the CURLOPT_POST for POST request
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($restaurants));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
'Content-Type: application/json'
]);
$res = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
print_r($res);
}
function putRestaurant(){
$restaurants = array(
'name' => 'Femoni Kitchen'
);
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://localhost:1337/api/restaurants/1');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'PUT');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($restaurants));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
'Content-Type: application/json'
]);
$res = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
print_r($res);
}
putRestaurant();
Running an authentication request (getting JWT):
[{
"jwt": "TOKEN",
"user": {
"confirmed": true,
"blocked": false,
"_id": "XXXXXXX",
"email": "youremail@example.com",
"username": "USERNAME",
"provider": "local",
"createdAt": "2021-03-22T08:03:04.717Z",
"updatedAt": "2021-03-22T08:21:09.170Z",
"__v": 0,
"role": {
"_id": "XXXXXXXXX",
"name": "Authenticated",
"description": "Default role given to authenticated user.",
"type": "authenticated",
"__v": 0,
"id": "XXXXXXXXXX"
},
"id": "XXXXXXXX"
}
}]
Example
<?php
$strapi_auth = [
"identifier" => STRAPI_USERNAME,
"password" => STRAPI_USER_PWD
];
function strapi_auth_curl($url, $auth){
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
CURLOPT_URL => $url.'/auth/local',
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST',
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS =>json_encode($auth),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
'Content-Type: application/json'
),
));
$response = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
return $response;
}
$login = strapi_auth_curl(STRAPI_URL, $strapi_auth);
$strapi_res = json_decode($login);
print_r($strapi_res);
Running an authenticated POST request with JWT:
[{
"id": 2,
"name": "Calabar Kitchen",
"description": "Omo, this is a place that varieties of soup with catfish🦈",
"published_at": "2021-03-14T11:23:13.251Z",
"created_at": "2021-03-14T11:23:13.260Z",
"updated_at": "2021-03-14T11:23:13.260Z",
"categories": [{
"id": 2,
"name": "Brunch ",
"published_at": "2021-03-14T09:22:58.909Z",
"created_at": "2021-03-14T09:22:51.893Z",
"updated_at": "2021-03-14T09:22:58.945Z"
}
]
}]
Example
<?php
$jwt = $strapi_res->jwt;
function postRestaurantWithAuth($jwt){
$auth = array(
'Authorization: Bearer '.$jwt,
'Content-Type: application/json'
);
$restaurants = array(
'name' => 'Calabar Kitchen',
'description' => 'Omo, this is a place that varieties of soup with catfish🦈',
'categories' => [2]
);
// Initializes a new cURL session
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://localhost:1337/api/restaurants');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
// Set the CURLOPT_POST for POST request
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($restaurants));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $auth);
$res = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
print_r($res);
}
postRestaurantWithAuth($jwt);