Have you had experience interacting with external APIs or third-party services to obtain data?

Yes, experience with interacting with external APIs and third-party services in PHP is usually implemented through HTTP requests. Libraries such as Guzzle or built-in cURL functions are often used for this.

Example of a request to an external API using Guzzle:

use GuzzleHttp\Client;

$client = new Client();
$response = $client->request('GET', 'https://api.example.com/data');

if ($response->getStatusCode() === 200) {
    $data = json_decode($response->getBody(), true);
    // process data
}

This approach allows for retrieving data, sending parameters, handling responses and errors, which is important for integration with external services.