Secure PHP API: how to ?

[conradk]

Hello world,

It's been a long time since I came to this forum. So Hello What's up with you guys ?

I was wondering if you knew any good tutorials on how to make a secure PHP API. Do you have to use cURL to make secure requests ? It seems a lot of API's made by service providers (Paypal...) use cURL or a similar system to make requests, where an AJAX request on the client side would be enough, right ?

Any help would be appreciated

Have a happy summer !

Conrad

[jacek]

So Hello What's up with you guys ?

Hello

I was wondering if you knew any good tutorials on how to make a secure PHP API

I did a video on the basics of it, not using https but you can just change the port.

Do you have to use cURL to make secure requests ? It seems a lot of API's made by service providers (Paypal...) use cURL or a similar system to make requests

No you don't, they use cURL because it's a standard and easy (I would say lazy) way to do things with HTTP. It's also about a third slower that using raw sockets.

where an AJAX request on the client side would be enough, right ?

You can't make an AJAX request to a URL not hosted on the same domain.

That any help ?

[conradk]

Hey,

Thanks Jacek

Hadn't noticed you had that vid up (or maybe I watched a very long time ago). Watching it now =)

Conrad