PHP Extension

Send a REST Request with No Body

Demonstrates Rest.FullRequestNoBody, which sends a complete request with no request body (such as a GET or DELETE) and returns the response body as text.

Background. This is the simplest full-request convenience method, ideal for retrieval and deletion calls that carry no request payload.

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<?php

include("chilkat.php");

$success = false;

$rest = new CkRest();
$bTls = true;
$bAutoReconnect = true;
$success = $rest->Connect('example.com',443,$bTls,$bAutoReconnect);
if ($success == false) {
    print $rest->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

//  Send a complete request with no request body, such as a GET or DELETE.  The response body is read
//  as text and returned.
$responseText = $rest->fullRequestNoBody('GET','/api/items/123');
if ($rest->get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
    print $rest->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

print $responseText . "\n";

?>