How do I call an API in controller function

Question

I have a function in controller and I want to call an HTTP request passing url like GET request in AJAX but I couldn't figure how do I use it using php I tried this

public function sendAPIRequest()
{
    $url = "https://myapi.com?apikey=".$api."&message=".$message."&receiver=".$receiver;
    //This is what I tried
    file_get_contents($url);
    //But it didn't work
}

Possible duplicate of [How to send a GET request from PHP?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/959063/how-to-send-a-get-request-from-php) — Jirennor, Apr 30 '17 at 09:56

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 30 '17 at 09:58

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you can use Guzzle Package for Laravel , Guzzle PHP

    $client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();
$res = $client->request('GET', "https://myapi.com?apikey=".$api."&message=".$message."&receiver=".$receiver);
echo $res->getStatusCode();
// 200
echo $res->getHeaderLine('content-type');
// 'application/json; charset=utf8'
echo $res->getBody();
// '{"id": 1420053, "name": "guzzle", ...}'

answered Apr 30 '17 at 09:58

Mortada Jafar

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Do I have to like require anything? like composer require gizzle – Alen Apr 30 '17 at 10:30

How do I call an API in controller function

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