对于那些不想使用curl的人:

//url
$url = 'some_url'; 

//Credentials
$client_id  = "";
$client_pass= ""; 

//HTTP options
$opts = array('http' =>
    array(
        'method'    => 'POST',
        'header'    => array ('Content-type: application/json', 'Authorization: Basic '.base64_encode("$client_id:$client_pass")),
        'content' => "some_content"
    )
);

//Do request
$context = stream_context_create($opts);
$json = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);

$result = json_decode($json, true);
if(json_last_error() != JSON_ERROR_NONE){
    return null;
}

print_r($result);

Basic方法的另一种方法是:

$curl = curl_init();

$public_key = "public_key";
$private_key = "private_key";

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
CURLOPT_URL => "https://url.endpoint.co/login",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
"Content-Type: application/json",
"Authorization: Basic ".base64_encode($public_key.":".$private_key)
),
));
$response = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
echo $response;

你只需要指定CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH和CURLOPT_USERPWD选项:

$curlHandler = curl_init();

$userName = 'postman';
$password = 'password';

curl_setopt_array($curlHandler, [
    CURLOPT_URL => 'https://postman-echo.com/basic-auth',
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,

    CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH => CURLAUTH_BASIC,
    CURLOPT_USERPWD => $userName . ':' . $password,
]);

$response = curl_exec($curlHandler);
curl_close($curlHandler);

或者指定头文件:

$curlSecondHandler = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curlSecondHandler, [
    CURLOPT_URL => 'https://postman-echo.com/basic-auth',
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,

    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
        'Authorization: Basic ' . base64_encode($userName . ':' . $password)
    ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curlSecondHandler);
curl_close($curlSecondHandler);

狂饮的例子:

use GuzzleHttp\Client;
use GuzzleHttp\RequestOptions;

$userName = 'postman';
$password = 'password';

$httpClient = new Client();

$response = $httpClient->get(
    'https://postman-echo.com/basic-auth',
    [
        RequestOptions::AUTH => [$userName, $password]
    ]
);

print_r($response->getBody()->getContents());

看到https://github.com/andriichuk/php-curl-cookbook基本认证

与SOAP不同，REST不是一个标准化的协议，因此拥有一个“REST客户端”有点困难。但是，由于大多数基于rest的服务使用HTTP作为其底层协议，因此您应该能够使用任何HTTP库。除了cURL, PHP还通过PEAR提供了以下功能:

HTTP_Request2

这所取代

HTTP_Request

一个他们如何做HTTP基本认证的例子

// This will set credentials for basic auth
$request = new HTTP_Request2('http://user:password@www.example.com/secret/');

也支持文摘认证

// This will set credentials for Digest auth
$request->setAuth('user', 'password', HTTP_Request2::AUTH_DIGEST);

Yahoo有一个使用PHP调用REST服务的教程:

让雅虎!使用PHP调用Web服务REST

我自己没有使用过，但雅虎就是雅虎，至少应该保证一定程度的质量。但是，它们似乎不包括PUT和DELETE请求。

另外，用户对curl_exec()和其他的贡献注释包含了很多好的信息。

市面上有多种REST框架。我强烈建议你看看Slim mini Framework for PHP 以下是其他一些公司的名单。