How to use CiviCRM REST API in external PHP code

Question

Been trying to get this to work for hours. Help would be greatly appreciated. userkey and sitekey are replaced with actual keys.

I'm trying to run in a php file:

$result = curl -X POST "https://www.mysite.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/rest.php?entity=Membership&action=get&api_key=userkey&key=sitekey&json={"sequential":1,"return":"membership_type_id,id,end_date","contact_id":2,"active_only":1,"options":{"limit":1,"sort":"join_date DESC"}}";

I get the error:

PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected 'POST' (T_STRING) in /home/spulver/civicrmapi.php on line 3

Any ideas how to fix?

Answer 1

I use CURL to call rest api. Here is the snippet you can ignore/remove many lines that sets curl variable.

$url = 'http://domain.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/rest.php?entity=Contact&action=getsingle&api_key=HR76BS710C&key=8c1cf9913fd674e08c8f27804334eb5a&json={"id":1}';

$ch = curl_init();
//http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php
//$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5);
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "");

//for debugging?
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, true);

$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$obj = json_decode($data);

HTH

Pradeep

Answer 2

you need to replace the url parameters api_key and key with the relevant keys. More information can be found in the developer documents.