PHP curl GET request with Parameters

[jaybo]

I am running a script with a curl GET request but my code is not currently outputting anything. Here is the code, I think that I need to add the parameters to the url but need some direction as how to do that?

Here is the code;

 

<?php
$curl = curl_init();

// Array Parameter Data
$data = [
  'lat'=>'52.509120', 
  'lon'=>'-1.884915',
  ];

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://geo.fcc.gov/api/census/area",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $data,
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Content-Type: application/json",
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);


if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}
?>

 

[ginerjm]

I think you have an error in your options array.  An extra comma at the end perhaps.

  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Content-Type: application/json",
  ], <<<<<
]);

If you have error checking enabled and on I would have thought this to be caught.

Edited March 10, 2022 by ginerjm

[jaybo]

Thanks for spotting that ginerjm - still no luck however. The error is now as follows;

 

SyntaxError: Unexpected token -    

at parse (/var/app/current/node_modules/body-parser/lib/types/json.js:83:15)    

at /var/app/current/node_modules/body-parser/lib/read.js:116:18    

at invokeCallback (/var/app/current/node_modules/raw-body/index.js:262:16)    

at done (/var/app/current/node_modules/raw-body/index.js:251:7)    

at IncomingMessage.onEnd (/var/app/current/node_modules/raw-body/index.js:307:7)    

at emitNone (events.js:86:13)    at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:185:7)    

at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:974:12)    

at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:80:11)    

at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:104:9)

[kicken]

24 minutes ago, jaybo said:

I think that I need to add the parameters to the url but need some direction as how to do that?

Yes.  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS is only for doing POST requests.  For GET you just include the parameters in the URL's query string.  You do that by adding a ? followed by the parameters in name=value&name=value2 format with proper url encoding applied.

PHP has a function to build the appropriate string from an array of parameters: http_build_query.  Use that and concatenate the result to the URL.

'https://geo.fcc.gov/api/census/area?'.http_build_query($data);

 

[benanamen]

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Edited March 10, 2022 by benanamen

[jaybo]

Thanks kicken, sorted it right out!