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Getting Started with PHP

This integration guide follows the Quick Start Guide and assumes you have you have fully completed the "Hands-on" path. You should be able to consume the API by browsing the URL http://localhost:1337/api/restaurants.

If you haven't gone through the Quick Start Guide, the way you request a Strapi API with PHP remains the same except that you will not fetch the same content.

Create a PHP file​

Be sure to have PHP installed on your computer.

touch strapi.php

We will use cURL, a built-in PHP extension that allows us to receive and send information via the URL syntax.

GET Request your collection type​

Execute a GET request on the restaurant collection type in order to fetch all your restaurants.

Be sure that you activated the find permission for the restaurant collection type.

Example GET request
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://localhost:1337/api/restaurants');

Running the PHP file on the browser gives this response:
Example response
[{
  "id": 1,
  "name": "Biscotte Restaurant",
  "description": "Welcome to Biscotte restaurant! Restaurant Biscotte offers a cuisine based on fresh, quality products, often local, organic when possible, and always produced by passionate producers.",
  "created_at": "2021-03-31T11:37:16.964Z",
  "updated_at": "2021-03-31T11:37:16.975Z",
  "categories": [{
      "id": 1,
      "name": "French Food",
      "created_by": 1,
      "updated_by": 1,
      "created_at": "2021-03-31T11:36:23.164Z",
      "updated_at": "2021-03-31T11:36:23.172Z"
    },
    {
      "id": 2,
      "name": "Brunch ",
      "published_at": "2021-03-07T10:10:19.608Z",
      "created_at": "2021-03-07T10:10:14.477Z",
      "updated_at": "2021-03-07T10:10:19.649Z"
    }
  ]
}]

Example​

<?php
function getRestaurants(){
    $curl = curl_init(); //Initializes curl
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://localhost:1337/api/restaurants');
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
        'Content-Type: application/json'
    ]); // Sets header information for authenticated requests

    $res = curl_exec($curl);
    curl_close($curl);
    print_r($res);
}

getRestaurants();

POST Request your collection type​

Execute a POST request on the restaurant collection type in order to create a restaurant.

Be sure that you activated the create permission for the restaurant collection type and the find permission for the category Collection type.

Example POST request
$restaurants = array(
  'name' => 'Calabar Kitchen',
  'description' => 'Omo, this is a place varieties soup with catfish🦈',
   'categories' => [2]
);

// Initializes a new cURL session
$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://localhost:1337/api/restaurants');

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

// Set the CURLOPT_POST for POST request
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);

Running the PHP file on the browser will give you this response:
Example response
[{
    "id": 2,
    "name": "Calabar Kitchen",
    "description": "Omo, this is a place that varieties of soup with catfish🦈",
    "published_at": "2021-03-14T11:23:13.251Z",
    "created_at": "2021-03-14T11:23:13.260Z",
    "updated_at": "2021-03-14T11:23:13.260Z",
    "categories": [{
        "id": 2,
        "name": "Brunch ",
        "published_at": "2021-03-14T09:22:58.909Z",
        "created_at": "2021-03-14T09:22:51.893Z",
        "updated_at": "2021-03-14T09:22:58.945Z"
        }
      ]
}]

Example​


<?php
function getRestaurants(){
    $curl = curl_init(); //Initializes curl
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://localhost:1337/api/restaurants');
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
        'Content-Type: application/json'
    ]); // Sets header information for authenticated requests

    $res = curl_exec($curl);
    curl_close($curl);

    print_r($res);
}

function postRestaurant(){
    $restaurants = array(
        'name' => 'Calabar Kitchen',
        'description' => 'Omo, this is a place that varieties of soup with catfish🦈',
         'categories' => [2]
      );

      // Initializes a new cURL session
      $curl = curl_init();

      curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://localhost:1337/api/restaurants');

      curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

      // Set the CURLOPT_POST for POST request
      curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
      curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,  json_encode($restaurants));

      curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
          'Content-Type: application/json'
      ]);
      $res = curl_exec($curl);
      curl_close($curl);
      print_r($res);

}

postRestaurant();

PUT Request your collection type​

Execute a PUT request on the restaurant collection type in order to update the category of a restaurant.

Be sure that you activated the update permission for the restaurant collection type. PUT Request is slightly different as we need to target the particular entry we want update. We do this by first making a request to http://localhost:1337/api/restaurants/1 and then update what we want to update. In this example, we are going to update "Biscotte Restaurant" to "Femoni Kitchen".

Example PUT request
$restaurants = array(
    'name' => 'Femoni Kitchen'
  );

$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://localhost:1337/api/restaurants/1');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'PUT');


Running the PHP file on the browser will give you this response:
Example response
[{
  "id": 1,
  "name": "Femoni Kitchen",
  "description": "Welcome to Biscotte restaurant! Restaurant Biscotte offers a cuisine based on fresh, quality products, often local, organic when possible, and always produced by passionate producers.",
  "created_at": "2021-03-31T11:37:16.964Z",
  "updated_at": "2021-03-31T11:37:16.975Z",
  "categories": [{
      "id": 1,
      "name": "French Food",
      "created_by": 1,
      "updated_by": 1,
      "created_at": "2021-03-31T11:36:23.164Z",
      "updated_at": "2021-03-31T11:36:23.172Z"
    }
  ]
}]

Example​

<?php
function getRestaurants(){
    $curl = curl_init(); //Initializes curl
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://localhost:1337/api/restaurants');
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
        'Content-Type: application/json'
    ]); // Sets header information for authenticated requests

    $res = curl_exec($curl);
    curl_close($curl);

    print_r($res);
}

function postRestaurant(){
    $restaurants = array(
        'name' => 'Calabar Kitchen',
        'description' => 'Omo, this is a place that varieties of soup with catfish🦈',
         'categories' => [2]
      );

      // Initializes a new cURL session
      $curl = curl_init();

      curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://localhost:1337/api/restaurants');

      curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

      // Set the CURLOPT_POST for POST request
      curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
      curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,  json_encode($restaurants));
      curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
          'Content-Type: application/json'
      ]);
      $res = curl_exec($curl);
      curl_close($curl);
      print_r($res);

}

function putRestaurant(){

$restaurants = array(
    'name' => 'Femoni Kitchen'
  );

$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://localhost:1337/api/restaurants/1');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'PUT');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,  json_encode($restaurants));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
  'Content-Type: application/json'
]);

$res = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);

print_r($res);
}

putRestaurant();

Running an authentication request (getting JWT):

Example response

[{
    "jwt": "TOKEN",
    "user": {
        "confirmed": true,
        "blocked": false,
        "_id": "XXXXXXX",
        "email": "youremail@example.com",
        "username": "USERNAME",
        "provider": "local",
        "createdAt": "2021-03-22T08:03:04.717Z",
        "updatedAt": "2021-03-22T08:21:09.170Z",
        "__v": 0,
        "role": {
            "_id": "XXXXXXXXX",
            "name": "Authenticated",
            "description": "Default role given to authenticated user.",
            "type": "authenticated",
            "__v": 0,
            "id": "XXXXXXXXXX"
        },
        "id": "XXXXXXXX"
    }
}]

Example​

<?php
$strapi_auth = [
    "identifier" => STRAPI_USERNAME,
    "password"  =>  STRAPI_USER_PWD
];




function strapi_auth_curl($url, $auth){
    $curl = curl_init();

    curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
        CURLOPT_URL => $url.'/auth/local',
        CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
        CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
        CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
        CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
        CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
        CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
        CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST',
        CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS =>json_encode($auth),
        CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
            'Content-Type: application/json'
        ),
    ));

    $response = curl_exec($curl);

    curl_close($curl);
    return $response;
}
$login = strapi_auth_curl(STRAPI_URL, $strapi_auth);
$strapi_res = json_decode($login);

print_r($strapi_res);

Running an authenticated POST request with JWT:

Example response
[{
    "id": 2,
    "name": "Calabar Kitchen",
    "description": "Omo, this is a place that varieties of soup with catfish🦈",
    "published_at": "2021-03-14T11:23:13.251Z",
    "created_at": "2021-03-14T11:23:13.260Z",
    "updated_at": "2021-03-14T11:23:13.260Z",
    "categories": [{
        "id": 2,
        "name": "Brunch ",
        "published_at": "2021-03-14T09:22:58.909Z",
        "created_at": "2021-03-14T09:22:51.893Z",
        "updated_at": "2021-03-14T09:22:58.945Z"
        }
      ]
}]

Example​

<?php
$jwt = $strapi_res->jwt;
function postRestaurantWithAuth($jwt){
  $auth = array(
        'Authorization: Bearer '.$jwt,
        'Content-Type: application/json'
    );
    $restaurants = array(
        'name' => 'Calabar Kitchen',
        'description' => 'Omo, this is a place that varieties of soup with catfish🦈',
         'categories' => [2]
      );
      
      // Initializes a new cURL session
      $curl = curl_init();
      
      curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://localhost:1337/api/restaurants');
      
      curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
      
      // Set the CURLOPT_POST for POST request
      curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
      curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,  json_encode($restaurants));
      
      curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $auth);
      $res = curl_exec($curl);
      curl_close($curl);
      print_r($res);

}

postRestaurantWithAuth($jwt);