How to use authorization header PHP

Question

I am trying to use an authorization header in order to use the vimeo API.

It tells me to do this \'Authorization: basic \' + base64(client_id + \':\' + client_secret

Answer 1

$api_url = 'http://myapiurl';

$client_id = 'myclientid';
$client_secret = 'myclientsecret';

$context = stream_context_create(array(
    'http' => array(
        'header' => "Authorization: Basic " . base64_encode("$client_id:$client_secret"),
    ),
));

$result = file_get_contents($api_url, false, $context);

Documentation links:

• file_get_contents
• stream_context_create
• HTTP context options

For more complex requests, you can use cURL, but the library's PHP implementation is a mess and I prefer to avoid it when I can. Guzzle is a library that abstracts a lot of the complexities here.

Answer 2

Vimeo highly recommends you do not write these authentication systems yourself, but use the official libraries: https://github.com/vimeo/vimeo.php.

If you are looking for a custom PHP integration, it varies based on the way you make HTTP requests. guzzle and curl are both http request libraries, with their own ways of setting headers (http://guzzle.readthedocs.org/en/latest/request-options.html#headers and PHP cURL custom headers)

As for base64 encoding your tokens, use the method base64_encode (http://php.net/manual/en/function.base64-encode.php)