How to hide API

quantumphp

I'm building a script and new to this. I'm looking for the easiest way to hide an API

For example it could work like this - but it's not secure
1. User submits a form POST
2. A script processes the form
3. The form variables become part of a url along with the api and open in a browser window.

This works but then anyone can see the api which needs to be kept private for this script.

Is there a simple way to run the url in a php script without running it in a window.
Like some function that says "open this url with these variables but don't send it to the browser"

Any ideas here would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

HalfaBee

www.php.net/curl might be what you are looking for.

bpat1434

You could also use [man]fopen/man, [man]file_get_contents/man, or [man]fsockopen/man will also work. CURL might be a bit much in this case if you're just getting simple data back and you're not sending any specific headers.

Note that fopen and file_get_contents require the php.ini setting "fopen_url_wrappers" to be enabled.

quantumphp

I did a search with all these things and found the solutions above that worked great.
I used the sockets version and it seems to be working just fine.

By the way, in case it helps anybody I was using it for an sms api
The page I ended up getting a script from was for some company but with a few small changes it worked for my clients company as well.

This page covered both the curl and sockets method of using the api and keeping it hidden.

http://www.sephiroth.it/tutorials/flashPHP/sms/

Thanks