Creating a calendar event using the Nylas API with PHP and cURL

create-event.php

<?php
$ACCESS_TOKEN = "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN";
$CALENDAR_ID = "The id of a calendar you got from the Nylas /calendars API";

$ch = curl_init("https://api.nylas.com/events");

# Setup request to send json via POST.
$payload = json_encode(
    array("title" => "Alan Turing Birthdate",
          "description" => "Alan Turing Birthdate",
          "when" => array("object" => "date", "date" => "1912-06-23"),
          "calendar_id" => $CALENDAR_ID,
    ));

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $payload);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type:application/json'));

# Pass the access token as an HTTP basic auth username
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $ACCESS_TOKEN . ":");

# Return response instead of printing.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

# Send request.
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

# Print response.
echo $result;
?>