Helper to perform GET requests on Parse REST API

parse-rest-api-get.php

<?php

function parse_get($url) {
  $app_id = 'PARSE_APP_ID';
  $api_key = 'PARSE_API_KEY';
  $curl = curl_init();

  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
    'X-Parse-Application-Id: ' . $app_id,
    'X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ' . $api_key
  ));

  $result = curl_exec($curl);
  curl_close($curl);

  return $result;
}

$user = json_decode( parse_get('https://api.parse.com/1/users/' . $user_id) );

print_r($user);