• PHP 5.3.10+
• cURL extension
• JSON extension
• Testing
  • PHPUnit 4.7.7 or higher

If you run into a problem where cURL cannot connect to the API, you may need to specify a specific .pem file. For your convenience, we've included the one used on our server.

To see if this is your problem, run curl https://clips.byu.edu. You will get the following error if you need to specify a .pem file:

"curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate"

Run curl https://clips.byu.edu -cacert digicert.pem, and you shouldn't see the error this time.

To get this to work with the PHP script, use the environment variable CURL_CA_BUNDLE and specify the certificate's location. For example:

CURL_CA_BUNDLE=/path/to/digicert.pem php my-script.php

Note that tests currently require a valid API key, not included in this repository.

CLIPS_API_KEY=your_test_key phpunit tests