Example Decal API request for Step 1 of the API docs

step1.php

<?php
    require 'curl_request.class.php';
    //update this to point to your install
    $url     = 'http://www.decalcms.com/index.php?h=DecalApi';
    $api_key = '597990c64261faa854805f6366f9dcc4f505ed0e';

    //formulate the post fields for the request
    //we'll look at the options in detail below
    $fields = array('api_key'   => $api_key,
                    't'         => 'Home',//fetch pages that use the Home
                                          //template

                    'dateorder' => 'true',//order the results by date
                    'desc'      => 'true',//put the most recent date first
                    'list'      => '1',   //get the first list of pages
                    'numitems'  => '1',   //we only want one page per list
                    );

    //send off the request using the CurlRequest class
    $xml = simplexml_load_string(CurlRequest::toUrl($url)
    ->method(CurlRequest::POST)
    ->postFields($fields)
    ->execute());