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PHP

Marty Hitchcock
Marty Hitchcock
13,108 Points
Posted by Marty Hitchcock
Marty Hitchcock
13,108 Points

understanding cURL and PHP on Firebase

Hi,

After recently completing the new JavaScript course on Treehouse I was comfortable enough to learn how to use Firebase with JavaScript which is great. However for what I want to achieve I also need to interact with Firebase using PHP. Using JavaScript was relatively easy to learn because their client side documentation is also written in it.

What has stumped me is trying to learn it for a server side language, in particular PHP as all of that documentation is in something called cURL. A link to what I am talking about: https://www.firebase.com/docs/rest/guide/understanding-data.html

Can anyone either tell me if there is anything on Treehouse that covers cURL or give me a brief run down on about it at least?

3 Answers

Ken Alger
STAFF
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher
Ken Alger
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher

Marty;

cURL is a command line tool used for getting or sending files utilizing a URL syntax. I have not seen anything on Treehouse in terms of courses exactly, but I would take a look at the PHP: cURL - Manual for additional information along with a list of cURL functions supported in PHP since 4.0.2.

Post back with additional questions.

Ken

Marty Hitchcock
Marty Hitchcock
13,108 Points
Marty Hitchcock
Marty Hitchcock
13,108 Points

Thanks Ken, I will take a look through that and try figure it out.

Brad Woods
Brad Woods
13,772 Points
Brad Woods
Brad Woods
13,772 Points

Did you find out how to interact with firebase using php with cURL? I'm attempting the same thing and not getting anywhere.

Marty Hitchcock
Marty Hitchcock
13,108 Points
Marty Hitchcock
Marty Hitchcock
13,108 Points

To be honest I just changed my approach and went with pure JS instead of a combination of JS and PHP. I would recommend trying that if it is applicable to you.

Brad Woods
Brad Woods
13,772 Points
Brad Woods
Brad Woods
13,772 Points

I'm using AngularJS and would love to stick to JS but I require the ability to upload files through the website. Angular's file uploading is very difficult to figure out, php's is easy. The problem I'm having is communicating from php to firebase.