https://zaynbuksh.com/tags/api/ Recent content in API on Zayn Buksh Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sun, 25 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://zaynbuksh.com/about/ Sun, 25 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://zaynbuksh.com/about/ When I was a boy, I loved to take things apart to see how they worked. Now, I love to use my creative and technical skills to put things together. Fullstack web developer and creative Hi, I’m Zayn, nice to meet you :) I am a full-stack web developer with an arts background - I have had a lifelong fascination with technology and design. My childhood was in a small Fijian village with no electricity, my teenage and adult life has been in metropolitan Australia - originally Melbourne, now Sydney. https://zaynbuksh.com/articles/consuming-apis-in-guzzle-in-laravel/ Tue, 21 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://zaynbuksh.com/articles/consuming-apis-in-guzzle-in-laravel/ Guzzle vs PHP’s built-ins PHP has built-in support for cURL and HTTP requests, and these tools are perfectly valid for handling simpler requests. Guzzle lets you get straight into developing your app. Guzzle is a convenient helper for doing non-trivial work with APIs, and requests in general. It takes care of the code that you would have to write, test, and maintain. Guzzle lets you get straight into developing your app.