can we call api from controller

@webrobert please help formatting in controller

@freemium what do you have so far?

@Sinnbeck i am using https://www.agora.io/en/blog/using-agora-cloud-recording-for-a-video-chat-web-app/ agora api for video call for video call i am using vue js and i want to record that calling video for that i need to call again agora api for video recording here is my controller

  public function index(Request $request)
    {
        $users = User::where('id', '<>', Auth::id())->get();

        return view('agora-chat', ['users' => $users]);
    }

    protected function token(Request $request)
    {
         $appID = env('AGORA_APP_ID');
        $appCertificate = env('AGORA_APP_CERTIFICATE');
        $channelName = $request->channelName;
        $user = Auth::user()->name;
        $role = RtcTokenBuilder::RoleAttendee;
        $expireTimeInSeconds = 3600;
        $currentTimestamp = now()->getTimestamp();
        $privilegeExpiredTs = $currentTimestamp + $expireTimeInSeconds;
        $token = RtcTokenBuilder::buildTokenWithUserAccount($appID, $appCertificate, $channelName, $user, $role, $privilegeExpiredTs);


        return $token;
    }

    public function callUser(Request $request)
    {
        $data['userToCall'] = $request->user_to_call;
        $data['channelName'] = $request->channel_name;
        $data['from'] = Auth::id();
        broadcast(new MakeAgoraCall($data))->toOthers();
//i think i need to call api from here 
    }

@freemium don't see the Http client in there?

I'll get you started.

$response = Http::withHeaders([
'Content-Type' => 'application/json' 
])->withBody(
     json_encode($yourDataAsArray)
)->post('https://api.agora.io/v1/apps/'.$APPID.'/cloud_recording/acquire') 

@freemium,

?? i did, the code is directly linked...

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Http;

$response = Http::post('http://example.com/users', [
    'name' => 'Steve',
    'role' => 'Network Administrator',
]);

T r y I t .

@Sinnbeck, I think that's a bit verbose, the example a gave will do that automatically.

$response = Http::post('http://example.com/users', $yourDataAsArray);

@webrobert oh great. Didn't know it would be posted as body/raw. Sweet 😁

I thought the array method posted what in php would be $_POST, while the withBody() method posted what in php would be php://stdin

@Sinnbeck ah, I missed the data raw bit.. though the headers are already json by default.

@webrobert ok great. Haven't used it that much, and I might need to clean up some of my implementations then. Think I always set the header explicitly

Edit 😶

By default, data will be sent using the application/json content type:

@Sinnbeck well sort of, this has been fun 🤓

// normal post json
Http::dump()->post('http://example.com/users', [
    "cname" => 'test'
]);

// didn't work for body
Http::dump()->post('http://example.com/users', [
    'body' => json_encode(["cname" => 'test'])
]);

// Too few arguments to function Illuminate\Http\Client\PendingRequest::withBody(), 
Http::dump()->withBody(json_encode(["cname" => 'test']))
    ->post('http://example.com/users');

// HAD to set JSON, you were right. 
Http::dump()->withBody(json_encode(["cname" => 'test']), 'application/json')
    ->post('http://example.com/users');

@webrobert wow interesting! So wrong and right at the same time.