[SOLVED] Displaying an API via curl onto a php webpage - Just cant figure it out

Issue

So I am trying to display info from a website onto my website via an API using curl.

And I am not to clued up on curl at all :(

So this is what I have to from the source website :

curl -H "IHOSTMN-API-KEY:YourIhostmnApiKeyHere" -X GET "https://ihostmn.com/api/v1/sharing/user/list_all_deposits"

And it should give this response:

{
    "result": {
        "deposits": [
            {
                "deposit_id": 36,
                "share_id": 2,
                "current_amount": 53.077553,
                "total_deposited": 24.91567,
                "total_earned": 28.146885,
                "withdraw_address": "GcUgnY5fFwTv9ef8rsggdxbdQzLEUxpp4c",
                "deposit_address": "GfUgnY5sFwTf9ez8rovtdxdEQzLcbxpb4c"
            },
            {
                "deposit_id": 37,
                "share_id": 5,
                "current_amount": 885.9591,
                "total_deposited": 521.92,
                "total_earned": 472.30566,
                "withdraw_address": "gHWHPs21H8UsSNcbfWxvn5XssAxFkcuZYe",
                "deposit_address": "g4sbWWtD3tf16Dsd8wiaJkar3zhJ82qNKP"
            },
            {
                "deposit_id": 38,
                "share_id": 6,
                "current_amount": 754.5115,
                "total_deposited": 548.52997,
                "total_earned": 416.25214,
                "withdraw_address": "LLqWFFJkNSog6VwsbPWEWE4KcXJrzB6t1K",
                "deposit_address": "LW5Vbt1gEkvVQzfVcpLmidLPpcED1Yp3yu"
            }
        ]
    },
    "error": ""
}

I have created my php webpage but can't make it work, this is what wrote:

curl -H "IHOSTMN-API-KEY:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" -X GET "https://ihostmn.com/api/v1/sharing/user/list_all_deposits"

$obj = json_decode($result);
echo $obj[0]->deposits;

Hopefully one of you will be able to point me in the correct direction, and thank you for taking the time to help if you can.

Mark

Solution

Try something like this

<?
$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://ihostmn.com/api/v1/sharing/user/list_all_deposits');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'GET');


$headers = array();
$headers[] = 'Ihostmn-Api-Key: YourIhostmnApiKeyHere';
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

$result = curl_exec($ch);
$obj = json_decode($result);

print_r($obj->result->deposits);

if (curl_errno($ch)) {
    echo 'Error:' . curl_error($ch);
}

curl_close($ch);

you use [] for arrays and arrows for objects.

I cannot test the API but this should give you a headstart.

Helpful links: cURL

Answered By - keithics

Answer Checked By - Willingham (WPSolving Volunteer)