php curl get method example

Example 1: php curl get

PHP cURL GET Request
A GET request retrieves data from a server. This can be a website’s HTML, an API response or other resources.

<?php

$cURLConnection = curl_init();

curl_setopt($cURLConnection, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://hostname.tld/phone-list');
curl_setopt($cURLConnection, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

$phoneList = curl_exec($cURLConnection);
curl_close($cURLConnection);

$jsonArrayResponse - json_decode($phoneList);

Example 2: php curl example

function getUrl($url){
    $ch = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
    $response = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    return $response;
}