API call using curl & PHP

Question

Greetings,

I've been working with the API a bit, and i'm wondering if someone could help me out.

Normally, I would call an API something like this very basic example:

<?php
$ch = curl_init('example.com/.../test);

$data = curl_exec($ch);

$info = curl_getinfo($ch);

curl_close($ch)

?>

I'm attempting to call the API and get a list of the users. I can accomplish this in a browser, which returns an xml of user data.

192.168.11.234:4444/.../APIController

I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions as to how to call the API using a PHP script that can return the data. sorry, but the sophos API documentation is not so great. So far no luck. Thought it might be as simple as this:

<?php
$ch = curl_init('192.168.11.234:4444/.../APIController);

$data = curl_exec($ch);

$info = curl_getinfo($ch);

curl_close($ch)

?>

Just trying to figure out ways of how to work with the API, I am hoping to perhaps get an output of an array that I can work with and send back modifications as an Xml.

Thanks for any help anyone may be able to offer.

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christopher gilles · Answer

Maybe this will help someone, but this works for me:

$input_xml = '<Request><Login><Username>XXXXXX</Username><Password>XXXXX</Password></Login><Get><User></User></Get></Request>';
$url = "192.168.11.234:4444/.../APIController";
$ch = curl_init();
$headers = [
"Content-type: text/xml;charset=\"utf-8\"",
"Accept: text/xml",
"Content-length: ".strlen($xml_data)
];

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url."?reqxml=" . urlencode($input_xml));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 300);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
if (curl_error($ch)) {
echo 'error:' . curl_error($ch);
}
$data = curl_exec($ch);
var_dump($data);
curl_close($ch);

$array_data = json_decode(json_encode(simplexml_load_string($data)), true);

print_r('<pre>');
print_r($array_data);
print_r('</pre>');

This outputs an array of the users.

'); print_r($array_data); print_r('

'); This outputs an array of the users.