PHP API Key Generator

How to generate Api key for my app

If you're using PHP, try this to create a GUID (globally unique id):

http://guid.us/GUID/PHP

How to generate only API_KEY and USER_SECRET in with laravel passport

To generate passport:keys you need to execute:

php artisan passport:keys

More you can read here.

Also, you will need to create client with:

php artisan passport:client

More in docs.

How can I generate an API Key in My own Controller in Codeigniter

see my self-accepted answer on my own qeuestion... Phils documentation does not provide this information. I had to dig into the library myself.

i ended up finding out the 403 forbidden was because i was not providing an api key to generate keys..

Kind of abiguous as Phil's documentation doesn't state that an existing api key is required before you can generate keys..
I simply created a bogus key in the table in the db and referenced that when calling /key/index?X-API-KEY=boguskey

CodeIgniter REST API Library Ajax PUT throwing 403 Forbidden

How to generate the API/developer key for Google APIs Client Library for PHP

It looks like that doc is slightly misleading. You do not need a separate key for the PHP client library, you only need a key for the Maps Engine API.

Make sure you've got that enabled and then any key you set up in the project console will work for any of the APIs you have enabled.

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