Calling Plumber APIs from PHP#

Requirements#

To call APIs hosted in RStudio Connect from PHP, you'll need:

URL for the API endpoint hosted on RStudio Connect
API key (if your API requires authorization)

PHP example#

You can use the cURL extension in PHP to call Plumber APIs from PHP applications:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<?php

$connect_api_url = "https://connect.yourcompany.com/rest-api/route";
$connect_api_key = "YfB5XBRB7slkkBSEi5qr93mWJvbpXQQy";

$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $connect_api_url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
    "Authorization: Key " . $connect_api_key
));

$result = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
echo $result;

?>

</body>
</html>

You can replace the values of $connect_api_url and $connect_api_key with your API URL and API key from RStudio Connect.

Scope#

The code examples assume that you are calling a published API in RStudio Connect that is:

Hosted on a secure server with TLS/SSL at an HTTPS endpoint
Using an API key to make an authorized call to an API
Making an HTTP GET request to the API

If your use case is different, then you can modify the example code accordingly.