PHP cURL Requests with JSON or XML - https://keithgreer.dev/php-curl-requests-json-xml

php-curl-request-json-or-xml.php

<?php 

// Initilise cURL
$ch = curl_init();

// Set the cURL Options
$optArray = array(
    CURLOPT_URL => 'https://example.com/api/getInfo/',
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true
);

// Set the Headers
$headers = [
    "Access-Key: 123456789QWERTYUIOP",
    "Access-Token: ASDFGHJKL0987654321",
    ];

// Add Options and Headers
curl_setopt_array($ch, $optArray);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

// Submit Request
$result = curl_exec($ch);

 // Convert JSON to Object
$processed = json_decode($result, true);
// OR Convert from XML to object
// $processed = simplexml_load_string($result);

curl_close($ch);

 
// Check that $processed has a value
if ($processed === false) {
  echo "Failed loading resource: ";
} else {
    // Dump the object
    echo "<pre>";
    print_r$processed); 
    echo "</pre>";
}