Using the Mega API, with PHP examples!

Here we are! I finally found the time to clean up my PHP experiments and write a PHP version of my first article explaining how to use the Mega API. I actually wrote the PHP version before the Python version, because I was learning Python and wanted to play around with the API with a language I know well before switching to Python. I will follow exactly the same structure as the Python version; just replacing the Python examples by PHP code.

For those who didn’t read my first article, let’s start with some reminders about the Mega API. It is based on a simple HTTP/JSON request-response scheme, which makes it really easy to use. Requests are made by POSTing the JSON payload to this URL:

https://g.api.mega.co.nz/cs?id=sequence_number[&sid=session_id]
Where sequence_number is a session-unique number incremented with each request, and session_id is a token identifying the user session.

The JSON payload is an array of commands:

[{'a': 'command1', 'param1': 'value1', 'param2': 'value2'}, {'a': 'command2', 'param1': 'value1', 'param2': 'value2'}]
We will only send one command per request, but we still need to put it in an array. The response is either a numeric error code or an array of per-command return objects (JSON-encoded). Since we only send one command, we will get back an array containing only one return object.

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