remote api auth php example

Using cURL, it would look something like this:

$c = curl_init(); //initialize the curl object
curl_setopt($c,CURLOPT_URL,$url); //set the URL
curl_setopt($c,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true); //we want HTTP headers returned
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30); //set the connection timeout to 30 seconds
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0); //turn off SSL verifications
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0); //turn off SSL verifications
curl_setopt($c, CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT, true); //allows printing of headers
//if a username was passed in, setup basic authorization
if($username){
$credentials = "$username:$password";
curl_setopt($c,CURLOPT_USERPWD,$credentials);
}
$results=curl_exec($c);

Enjoy!