How To Make A PHP Curl Request With Basic Authentication Example

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Today i will explained to the How To Make A PHP Curl Request With Basic Authentication. This example is so easy to use in php.

When accessing API request over PHP curl, some routes are authentication required. Also third party API mostly required to authenticate before accepting request. This can be done by Bearer or Basic authentication method.

In this article, we will see how to send PHP curl request on authentication protected url. You need to send user and password data with the request. Below example send the get request which requires basic authentication.

So let's start to the example and follow to the my all step.

Example :

<?php

$url = 'https://api.example.com/my-activity';
$username = 'example@gmail.com';
$password = '123456';

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username.':'.$password);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

$response = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);

You can also send curl request using Authorization header. Curl CURLOPT_USERPWD option basically send Authorization header with value of username:password in a base64 format. You can do it as below:

<?php

$url = 'https://api.example.com/my-activity';
$username = 'example@gmail.com';
$password = '123456';
$headers = array(
    'Authorization: Basic '. base64_encode($username.':'.$password)
);

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

$response = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);

This way, you can also make curl request over the routes which requires authentication. If you like the article,like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter.

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So, finally we are done with our code we can get below output.