10. Web Services

Activity 10.1: Making Your Own POST Request to httpbin.org

Solution

1. Create a httpbin.php file in the guzzle-example directory. Require the Composer autoload file and import the Guzzle Client class:

   <?php
   require 'vendor/autoload.php';
   use GuzzleHttp\Client;

2. Instantiate a new Guzzle Client by passing the httpbin address:

   $client = new Client(['base_uri'=>'http://httpbin.org/']);

3. Inside a try…catch block, make a POST request to the /response-headers endpoint. Add an Accept header set to application/json and set two query parameter key-value pairs, with first as John and last as Doe:

   try
   {
       $response=$client->request('POST', '/response-headers',[
           'headers'=>[
               'Accept'=>'application-json'
       ...