CloudKit server-to-server in PHP

cloudkit-server.php

<?php

// Constants
$KEY_ID 				= 'YOUR_KEY_ID';
$CONTAINER 				= 'YOUR_CONTAINER';
$PRIVATE_PEM_LOCATION 	= 'eckey.pem'; // Store this file outside the public folder!

// Config
$url = 'https://api.apple-cloudkit.com/database/1/' . $CONTAINER . '/development/public/records/query';
$body = '{"query":{"recordType":"Articles"}}';

// Set cURL
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'POST');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

// Create signature
date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
$explode_date = explode('+', date("c", time()));
$time = $explode_date[0] . 'Z';
$signature = $time . ":" . base64_encode(hash("sha256", $body, true)) . ":" . explode('cloudkit.com', $url)[1];

// Get private key
$pkeyid = openssl_pkey_get_private("file://" . $PRIVATE_PEM_LOCATION); 

// Sign signature with private key
if(openssl_sign($signature, $signed_signature, $pkeyid, "sha256WithRSAEncryption")) {
	openssl_free_key($pkeyid);

	// Set headers
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,
		[
			"Content-Type: text/plain",
			"X-Apple-CloudKit-Request-KeyID: " . $KEY_ID,
			"X-Apple-CloudKit-Request-ISO8601Date: " . $time,
			"X-Apple-CloudKit-Request-SignatureV1: " . base64_encode($signed_signature),
		]
	);

	// Set body
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $body);

	// Send the request & save response to $resp
	$resp = curl_exec($ch);

	if(!$resp) {
		die('Error: "' . curl_error($ch) . '" - Code: ' . curl_errno($ch));
	} else {
		$json_result = json_decode($resp);
		echo '<pre>';
		var_dump($json_result);
	}

	curl_close($ch);
} else {
	while ($msg = openssl_error_string()) {
    	echo $msg . "<br />\n";
	}
}

Can this process be used to save data from my php/mysql server to CloudKit?

Can this process be used to save data from my php/mysql server to CloudKit?

Yes it can!

Example:

$bodyData = array(
    'operations' => array(
        'operationType' => 'create',
            'record' => array(
                'recordType' => 'YOUR_RECORD_TYPE',
                'fields' => array(
                    'YOUR_FIELD_NAME' => array('value' => 'YOUR_VALUE')
                )
            )
    )   
);

$body = json_encode($bodyData);

Thanks a lot for figuring this out, I've slotted it into code I already had for communicating with a similar backend and uploaded this new CloudKit-PHP project.

Can this code be used to update a CKAsset field on a record?