Connecting to API via PHP

[webguy2022]

I'm trying to create an API connection to get People Counter stats. I believe there is an issue with our certificate which is causing an error, but before I ask our sysadmin, I want to ensure I am attempting to authenticate correctly using PHP and curl. I haven't found much documentation on this from Axis.

This is what I have now. If there's something wrong with this method, can you please advise on how to enable the secure connection?

`
$host = "https://path-to-server";
$path = "/path-to-api-export/";
$headers['Host'] = $host;
$headers['Content-Type'] = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";

$data = array(
'grant_type' => 'client_credentials',
'client_id' => $client_id,
'client_secret' => $client_secret
);

$timeout = 3600;
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $host . $path);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1 );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($data));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $timeout);

$auth = curl_exec( $ch );`

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[vivekatoffice]

Hi @webguy2022 ,
I am adding a PHP snippet I tested with AXIS Q1715 Block Camera (AXIS OS version 12.2.52). You can refer to the configuration details from here: 889

<?php

$server = "http://10.176.12.49//local/objectanalytics/control.cgi";
$username = "VLTuser";
$password = "XXXXXX";
$scenario_uid = 1697489680; // Replace with actual scenario ID

// Create the JSON request body
$data = json_encode([
    "apiVersion" => "1.0",
    "method" => "getAccumulatedCounts",
    "params" => ["scenario" => $scenario_uid]
]);

// Initialize a cURL session
$ch = curl_init($server);

// Set cURL options for Digest authentication and POST request
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_DIGEST);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
    "Content-Type: application/json"
]);

// Execute the request
$response = curl_exec($ch);
$http_code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

if ($response === false) {
    echo "cURL Error: " . curl_error($ch);
} else {
    echo "HTTP Code: $http_code\n";
    echo "Response: $response\n";
}

// Close cURL session
curl_close($ch);
?>

Output: