How to Integrate Gemini API into Your PHP Projects Using Curl

Learn how to seamlessly integrate the powerful Gemini Text API into your PHP applications using the versatile Curl library. This comprehensive guide covers step-by-step instructions, code examples, and best practices to help you effectively leverage Gemini's advanced text capabilities. Unlock the potential of AI-driven text processing and enhance your PHP projects today.

Gemini has many options to work with, here I will introduce about how you can use Gemini Text generation API with your PHP project. You can use this script with various platforms such as WordPress, Laravel, CakePHP, CodeIgniter etc.

Let's see the below code ...

<?php
try {

    $apiKey = 'enter-you-gemini-api-key';
    $apiUrl = 'https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/models/gemini-pro:generateContent';

    $message = "List top PHP frameworks based on PHP. What are their advantages.";


    $data = json_encode([
        'contents' => [
            [
                'parts' => [
                    [
                        'text' => "$message"
                    ]
                ]
            ]
        ]
    ]);

    $ch = curl_init($apiUrl . '?key=' . $apiKey);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
        'Content-Type: application/json'
    ]);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);

    $response = curl_exec($ch);
    $responseArray = json_decode($response, true);

    if (isset($responseArray['candidates'][0]['content']['parts'][0]['text'])) {
        $text = $responseArray['candidates'][0]['content']['parts'][0]['text'];
        echo $text;
    } else {
        echo "error";
    }


    curl_close($ch);


} catch (Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage();
}
?>

Output