REST Calls with PHP

Question

I want to access user profile and contacts. I am using OAuth WRAP and I can get Access Token but further I dont know "how to send HTTP get request using PHP for getting contacts" or profile or both ?

I have read this document http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff751708.aspx

but i m confused how can i include all of the following in HTTP headers: 

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: apis.live.net
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: WRAP access_token=AuthToken 

as in php there are two methods for sending http header 

file_get_contents, curl but both takes url only. 

Any guide, help or suggestion will be appreicated.

Answer 1

Hi there...

you have to setup the authorization in curl_options HTTPHEADER.

Short request sample using curl:

 // Service endpoint for HTTP GET request
 $url_string = 'http://apis.live.net/V4.1/cid-CID/Contacts/AllContacts';
 $curl_session = curl_init($url_string);
 
 // build HTTP header with authorization code
 $curl_options = array(
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
   'Authorization: WRAP access_token=AuthToken="'.$_SESSION['wl_AuthToken'].'"',
   'Accept: application/json'
  )
 );

 // setup options for curl transfer
 curl_setopt_array($curl_session, $curl_options);

 // execute session and get response
 $curl_response = curl_exec($curl_session);

 // show response code
 print $curl_response;

 // close session
 curl_close($curl_session);

hope it may be helpful. :-)

kind regards,
McGenesis