Request for PHP Code Support and Guidance on Access Token Retrieval

Question

Dear Strava Developer Support Team,I am currently working on a project that requires integrating with the Strava API using PHP. However, I noticed that your official developer site does not provide PHP-supported code examples.After searching, I found a PHP repository on GitHub that seems to be aligned with Strava’s API, but it currently has seven unresolved issues.Additionally, the code requires an "ACCESS TOKEN" to function correctly, but I couldn't find clear documentation on how to generate or retrieve this token specific to PHP implementations.Could you kindly provide guidance or official PHP code examples for integrating with your API? Furthermore, I would appreciate detailed instructions on how to obtain the necessary access token.

ActivityFix · Accepted Answer

I would recommend you look into existing PHP libraries for OAuth and Strava to get some idea of how to integrate with the API. My suggestions would be:

OAuth - https://oauth2-client.thephpleague.com/
- You'll need a Strava provider, the officially listed one is https://github.com/Edwin-Luijten/oauth2-strava (see https://oauth2-client.thephpleague.com/providers/thirdparty/)
Strava - https://github.com/basvandorst/StravaPHP
- Note: This library is slightly outdated. You'll need to make a few updates to match the latest API spec. It's a good baseline.

As far as obtaining the token, the OAuth flow is documented at https://developers.strava.com/docs/authentication/ . It is a standard flow so there's nothing specific to Strava about it. If you follow those steps and use the above OAuth library a minimal amount of code is needed to obtain access tokens. League has an example page which should get you started - https://oauth2-client.thephpleague.com/usage/

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