Doing HTTP requests FROM Laravel to an external API

Question

What I want is get an object from an API with a HTTP (eg, jQuery\'s AJAX) request to an external api. How do I start? I did research on Mr Google but I can\'t find anything

Answer 1

Updated on March 21 2019

Add GuzzleHttp package using composer require guzzlehttp/guzzle:~6.3.3

Or you can specify Guzzle as a dependency in your project's composer.json

{
   "require": {
      "guzzlehttp/guzzle": "~6.3.3"
   }
}

Include below line in the top of the class where you are calling the API

use GuzzleHttp\Client;

Add below code for making the request

$client = new Client();

    $res = $client->request('POST', 'http://www.exmple.com/mydetails', [
        'form_params' => [
            'name' => 'george',
        ]
    ]);

    if ($res->getStatusCode() == 200) { // 200 OK
        $response_data = $res->getBody()->getContents();
    }