Do you mean the "curl" from the command line, or the equivalent PHP function that acts like it?

Run the commad using "exec" function?

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:29 AM, Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw@gmail.com> wrote:

2009/5/10 Rezuan Asrah <rezuan7@gmail.com>:

> This might sound silly since I'm a newbie but what would be the best way to
> call the API from a php script ?
> This is what I did :-
>
> <?php
> echo exec( "lynx -dump
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&search=Malaysia&format=xml"
> );
> ?>
> Any suggestions?

Use cURL, or a PHP client library [1].

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_Code#PHP

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