Basic Authentication

When using endpoint API, we are most time required to authenticate the request before it can be process.

In this post I'll show you how to set basic authentication on your php script.

You'll have to declare variable $basic_1 and assign the value of the function base64_encode("username: your_username") to the variable on your php code. The username and it value will be given from the endpoint website.


<?php
 $basic_1 = base64_encode("username: your_username");
?>

You can now use basic authentication on your php code once you call the variable name like the example below


<?php
 $basic_1 = base64_encode("username: your_username");
$curl = curl_init();

 curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
                       CURLOPT_URL => "https://www.endpoint_url.com/api/v1/auth/login",
                      CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
                      CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
                       CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
                       CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
                       CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
                      CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
                      CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
                      CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS =>"{\n  \"amount\": 100.00}",
                      CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
                        "Authorization: Basic ".$basic_1,
                         "Content-Type: application/json"
                       ),
                     ));

?>