An example showing how to create an invoke an HTTP client in PHP using cUrl, POST, and Basic Auth

Example PHP Web Client

/************************************
*
* This part of the example is the HTTP 
* client responsible for making the request
*
*************************************/

<?php

class WebClient {

    private $username;
    private $password;
    
    // Create a new web client by passing in the credentials for basic auth
    function __construct($username, $password)
    {
        $this->username = $username;
        $this->password = $password
    }

    public function post($url, $payload) {
      $curl = curl_init();
      
      // Setup the request
      curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
          CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => $this->getRequestHeaders(),
          CURLOPT_POST => 1,
          CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $payload,
          CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1,
          CURLOPT_URL => $url,
          CURLOPT_USERAGENT => "TreenoHRCorpWeb/1.0; +http://www.treenohr.com" // Make sure the treenohr web servers know who we are
      ));
      
      $result = curl_exec($curl);
      curl_close($curl);
      return $result;
    }
    
    private function getRequestHeaders() {
      $headers = array("Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8","Accept:application/json");
    
      authHeader = "Authorization: Basic ".base64_encode($this->username.":".$this->password);
      array_push($headers, $authHeader);
    
      return $headers;
    }
}

/************************************
*
* This part of the example shows how 
* to call the above http client
*
*************************************/

<?php
use <PATH TO WebClient.php>\WebClient;

$username = "<YOUR USERNAME>";
$password = "<YOUR PASSWORD>";

// Instantiate client
try {
    var $webClient = new WebClient();
    $webClient->post("http://<TREENOWEBHOST>/api/accountscaffolding", "{ \"DomainName\":\"<NEW DOMAIN>\"}")
}
catch(\mediasilo\http\exception\NotAuthenticatedException $e) {
    print "Something went wrong. Cat on the keyboard? \n";
    exit;
}