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Hey all, this is my first post here, hope you are all well o/

I am trying to create a simple API call from PHP to GPT-3.5-turbo. I do not have access to CURL on the server and I won’t get it either so I am trying to work with simple HTTP requests. Here is my code:

function get_rephrased_text($api_key, $text) {
	
	$endpoint = 'https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions';
    $headers = array(
        "Authorization: Bearer $api_key",
        "Content-Type: application/json"
    );
	
	$payload = array(
		"model" => "gpt-3.5-turbo",
		"messages" => array(
			array(
				"role" => "user",
				"content" => $text
			)
		),
		"max_tokens" => 250,
		"temperature" => 0.7
	);
	$jsonPayload = json_encode($payload);
	// debug
	var_dump($jsonPayload);
	echo "<br/>";
	
    $options = array(
        'http' => array(
            'header' => implode("\r\n", $headers),
            'method' => 'POST',
            'content' => $jsonPayload
        )
    );

    $context = stream_context_create($options);
    $response = file_get_contents($endpoint, false, $context);

    $response_data = json_decode($response, true);
	// debug
	var_dump($response_data);
	echo "<br/>";
	
    if (isset($response_data['choices']) && count($response_data['choices']) > 0) 
	{
        return trim($response_data['choices'][0]['text']);
    } 
	else 
	{
        return null;
    }
}

The debug output of the JSON seems perfectly fine. Also I can see the API requests in the OpenAi dashboard under my API key so that is also correct. Can anyone spot what I am doing wrong here?

Thanks a lot !

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Have you tried dumping the actual response before converting it to JSON?

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Hey Serge,

thanks a lot for the suggestion!

This pointed me in the right direction. For anyone running into a similar problem, add the following to your HTTP request:

‘ignore_errors’ => true

$options = array(
        'http' => array(
            'header' => implode("\r\n", $headers),
            'method' => 'POST',
            'content' => $jsonPayload,
			'ignore_errors' => true
        )
    );

This results in you getting an actual error message instead of just false. Now I know that I simply exceeded my current quota … I feel silly but thanks a lot for your help!

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Cleaner would be to check if the response is an error and handle that

See what’s in $http_response_header to check for errors