How to use basic authorization in PHP curl

Try the following code :

$username='ABC';
$password='XYZ';
$URL='<URL>';

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$URL);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30); //timeout after 30 seconds
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");
$result=curl_exec ($ch);
$status_code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);   //get status code
curl_close ($ch);

Ok so finally found a solution. It helps to read documentations on the classes you use and different systems used. In my case i was trying to integrate my app with microsoft dynamics 365 ax, so i had to read up on that too.

I read a lot of documents some were related to different dynamics service but this one helped most

And since the soap service needed Authorization Header, because they were using Windows authentication, we needed to get the token from oAuth link.

https://login.windows.net/$tenantDomainName/oauth2/token

PS: the oauth2 link i knew about it from github PHPConsoleApplication

I used PHP CURL to get my authorization Token and then created a client using PHP's SoapClient Class.

Make sure you add the authorization token in the header like so:

$arrayOpt = array(    
'stream_context'  => stream_context_create(
                            array('http' =>'Authorization: Bearer tokenString')
 ));

$client = new SoapClient($wsdl, $arrayOpt);

$response = $client->serviceMethod($parameters);

var_dump($response);

And you will get the values of the method.

Using jq for this, as Charles Duffy's answer suggests, is a very good idea. However, if you can't or do not want to install jq here is what you can do with plain POSIX shell.

#!/bin/sh
set -e

current_ip="$(curl --silent --show-error --fail ipecho.net/plain)"
echo "IP: $current_ip"

# Update A record
curl -X PUT "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/ZONEIDHERE/dns_records/DNSRECORDHERE" 
    -H "X-Auth-Email: EMAILHERE" 
    -H "X-Auth-Key: AUTHKEYHERE" 
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" 
    --data @- <<END;
{
    "id": "ZONEIDHERE",
    "type": "A",
    "name": "example.com",
    "content": "$current_ip",
    "zone_name": "example.com"
}
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