Getting API Responses Using cURL in PHP

In PHP, you can create a standalone class that includes a function to call an API via cURL and obtain the response. Here's how you can achieve this:

class ApiRequest {
  public function getResponse($url) {
    // Set cURL options
    $options = array(
      CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
      CURLOPT_HEADER => false,
      CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
      CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
      CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
      CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER => true,
      CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 120,
      CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 120,
    );

    // Initialize cURL
    $ch = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt_array($ch, $options);

    // Execute cURL and get the response
    $response = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);

    // Return the response
    return $response;
  }
}

To use this class, create an instance and call the getResponse function, passing in the API URL as an argument. The function will return the response from the API.