Using Lumen for reading a REST API

Take a look at guzzle. It is the goto solution for making http requests with php nowadays. http://docs.guzzlephp.org/en/latest/

Yup.. Guzzle is straightforward and easy to use.. read the docs, it's all there -- aside from maybe what the api endpoints are you want to hit on the API you're trying to consume. But hopefully it's at least somewhat documented. :)

http://guzzle3.readthedocs.org/

Hit an API to get data, assuming it is JSON. Quite simple:

public function apiRoute()
    {
        return json_decode(file_get_contents(
                'https://someurltogetdata'), true);
    }

http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php

Post data is different as some use to post data in the url, some expect a JSON object. Guzzle helps, but if the API is truly REST you don't need it.

This is assuming your

Thanks for your answers.

I try to use Guzzle like this, but I get a 500 error:

http://laravel.io/bin/PXaL8

When I ask for that URL via Browser or a RESTClient I'll get my JSON structure back.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

your api.local server is the one with the issue, not the client you pasted code for. The api server is throwing the 500 error.

Check error logs for that and see what's up.

@willvincent thanks for the fast answer.

error log says: lumen.ERROR: exception 'PDOException' with message 'SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'homestead'@'localhost' (using password: YES)'

But I don't use homestead. I use Windows XAMPP and SQLITE as database, which is defined in .ENV

it would seem your .env file isn't being evaluated properly then..