Joomla 5 rest api example code for content submission

To submit content via the Joomla 5 REST API, you'll need to make a POST request to the articles endpoint. Here's some sample PHP code demonstrating this:

php
<?php

// API endpoint URL
$apiUrl = 'https://your-joomla-site.com/api/index.php/v1/content/articles';

// Your API token
$apiToken = 'your-api-token-here';

// Article data
$articleData = [
    'title' => 'My New Article',
    'alias' => 'my-new-article',
    'articletext' => 'This is the content of my new article.',
    'catid' => 2, // Category ID
    'state' => 1, // Published
    'access' => 1, // Public
    'language' => '*' // All languages
];

// Initialize cURL session
$ch = curl_init($apiUrl);

// Set cURL options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
    'Content-Type: application/json',
    'X-Joomla-Token: ' . $apiToken
]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($articleData));

// Execute the request
$response = curl_exec($ch);

// Check for errors
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
    echo 'cURL Error: ' . curl_error($ch);
} else {
    $httpCode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
    if ($httpCode == 201) {
        echo 'Article created successfully!';
        $responseData = json_decode($response, true);
        echo 'New article ID: ' . $responseData['data']['id'];
    } else {
        echo 'Error: ' . $httpCode . ' - ' . $response;
    }
}

// Close cURL session
curl_close($ch);

This code does the following:

1. It sets up the API endpoint URL and your API token[2][5].

2. It prepares the article data in an associative array, including title, alias, content, category ID, and other metadata[5].

3. It initializes a cURL session to make the POST request to the API endpoint[2][5].

4. It sets the necessary headers, including the content type and the API token for authentication[2][5].

5. It sends the request with the article data encoded as JSON[5].

6. It then checks the response. If successful (HTTP code 201), it displays a success message and the new article ID. If there's an error, it displays the error code and message[5].

Remember to replace `'https://your-joomla-site.com'` with your actual Joomla site URL and `'your-api-token-here'` with your actual API token[2][5].

Also, ensure that you have the necessary permissions to create articles via the API, and that the category ID you're using exists on your Joomla site[5].

This example uses cURL, but you could also use Joomla's built-in HTTP class as demonstrated in one of the search results:

php
$apiRequest = Joomla\CMS\Http\HttpFactory::getHttp()->post($apiUrl, json_encode($articleData), $headers);

This approach might be preferable if you're working within a Joomla environment[2].