Laravel 4 make post request from controller to external url with data

Question

I am looking for a way to make a post request from a controller to an external url. The data being posted is a php array. The url to recieve is an ecommerce API in an extern

Answer 1

We can use package Guzzle in Laravel, it is a PHP HTTP client to send HTTP requests.

You can install Guzzle through composer

composer require guzzlehttp/guzzle:~6.0

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

{
   "require": {
      "guzzlehttp/guzzle": "~6.0"
   }
}

Example code of POST Request in laravel, using Guzzle is as shown below,

use GuzzleHttp\Client;
class yourController extends Controller {
public function saveApiData()
{
    $client = new Client();
    $res = $client->request('POST', 'https://url_to_the_api', [
        'form_params' => [
            'client_id' => 'test_id',
            'secret' => 'test_secret',
        ]
    ]);

    $result= $res->getBody();
    dd($result);

}