Interact with Firebase from PHP.

firebase.php

<?php

// Constants
$FIREBASE = "_YOUR_FIREBASE_URL_";
$NODE_DELETE = "temperature.json";
$NODE_GET = "temperature.json";
$NODE_PATCH = ".json";
$NODE_PUT = "temperature.json";

// Data for PUT
// Node replaced
$data = 32;

// Data for PATCH
// Matching nodes updated
$data = array(
    "temperature" => 42
);

// JSON encoded
$json = json_encode( $data );

// Initialize cURL
$curl = curl_init();

// Create
// curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_URL, $FIREBASE . $NODE_PUT );
// curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT" );
// curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 32 );

// Read
// curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_URL, $FIREBASE . $NODE_GET );

// Update
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_URL, $FIREBASE . $NODE_PATCH );
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PATCH" );
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $json );

// Delete
// curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_URL, $FIREBASE . $NODE_DELETE );
// curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "DELETE" );

// Get return value
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );

// Make request
// Close connection
$response = curl_exec( $curl );
curl_close( $curl );

// Show result
echo $response . "\n";

?>

Great!!!
It works perfectly!!!

Woww
so cool.

It is exactly what I was looking for ! Thanks !

Thanks a lot!

delete operation is not working for me its throw a error "Array ( [error] => Unsupported operation )". so can you please help me with this. Thanks

It's not working !! output shows nothing !! where i have made mistake

Thanks for sharing code.
i need to update particular field and rest other fields in firebase database.
i tried your code
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PATCH" );
while using PATCH it make empty the other fields.
For example here i tried to update "plugin" field update. Find the attachment.
can you help me? thanks in advance.

ADD

UPDATE

What about the Firebase data that needs authentication for access. How would you handle that?

great

Thank you all for the comments and feedback. Note that I have not worked with Firebase for more than a year, and as such the API may have changed, and this code may be out of date (probably is out of date). I honestly never expected that people would find this gist and use it - I just posted it for my own memory. I am not actively maintaining this code.

I am facing problem in below mentioned code ,I am beginner please help!
How to setup??
// Constants
$FIREBASE = "YOUR_FIREBASE_URL";
$NODE_DELETE = "temperature.json";
$NODE_GET = "temperature.json";
$NODE_PATCH = ".json";
$NODE_PUT = "temperature.json";