PHP code example of anthropic-ai / sdk

    
        
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

/* Start to develop here. Best regards https://php-download.com/ */

    

anthropic-ai / sdk example snippets

use Anthropic\Client;

$client = new Client(
  apiKey: getenv('ANTHROPIC_API_KEY') ?: 'my-anthropic-api-key'
);

$message = $client->messages->create(
  maxTokens: 1024,
  messages: [['role' => 'user', 'content' => 'Hello, Claude']],
  model: 'claude-opus-4-6',
);

var_dump($message->content);

use Anthropic\Client;

$client = new Client(
  apiKey: getenv('ANTHROPIC_API_KEY') ?: 'my-anthropic-api-key'
);

$stream = $client->messages->createStream(
  maxTokens: 1024,
  messages: [['role' => 'user', 'content' => 'Hello, Claude']],
  model: 'claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929',
);

foreach ($stream as $message) {
  var_dump($message);
}

$client = new Anthropic\Client(
    requestOptions: Anthropic\RequestOptions::with(streamingTransporter: $myStreamingClient),
);

use Anthropic\Core\Helpers\StructuredOutputModel;

class Article extends StructuredOutputModel
{
    public string $title;
    public string $summary;
    /** @var string[] */
    public array $tags;
}

$message = $client->messages->create(
  maxTokens: 1024,
  messages: [['role' => 'user', 'content' => 'Write an article about PHP']],
  model: 'claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929',
  outputConfig: ['format' => Article::class],
);

$article = $message->content[0]->parsed; // Article instance
echo $article->title;

use Anthropic\Client;

$client = new Client(
  apiKey: getenv('ANTHROPIC_API_KEY') ?: 'my-anthropic-api-key'
);

$page = $client->beta->messages->batches->list(limit: 20);

var_dump($page);

// fetch items from the current page
foreach ($page->getItems() as $item) {
  var_dump($item->id);
}
// make additional network requests to fetch items from all pages, including and after the current page
foreach ($page->pagingEachItem() as $item) {
  var_dump($item->id);
}

use Anthropic\Core\Exceptions\APIConnectionException;
use Anthropic\Core\Exceptions\RateLimitException;
use Anthropic\Core\Exceptions\APIStatusException;

try {
  $message = $client->messages->create(
    maxTokens: 1024,
    messages: [['role' => 'user', 'content' => 'Hello, Claude']],
    model: 'claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929',
  );
} catch (APIConnectionException $e) {
  echo "The server could not be reached", PHP_EOL;
  var_dump($e->getPrevious());
} catch (RateLimitException $e) {
  echo "A 429 status code was received; we should back off a bit.", PHP_EOL;
} catch (APIStatusException $e) {
  echo "Another non-200-range status code was received", PHP_EOL;
  echo $e->getMessage();
}

use Anthropic\Client;

// Configure the default for all requests:
$client = new Client(requestOptions: ['maxRetries' => 0]);

// Or, configure per-request:
$result = $client->messages->create(
  maxTokens: 1024,
  messages: [['role' => 'user', 'content' => 'Hello, Claude']],
  model: 'claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929',
  requestOptions: ['maxRetries' => 5],
);

use Anthropic\Core\FileParam;

// Pass a string with filename and content type:
$contents = file_get_contents('/path/to/file');
// Pass a string with filename and content type:
$fileMetadata = $client->beta->files->upload(
  file: FileParam::fromString($contents, filename: '/path/to/file', contentType: '…'),
);

// Pass in only a string (where applicable)
$fileMetadata = $client->beta->files->upload(file: '…');

// Pass an open resource:
$fd = fopen('/path/to/file', 'r');
try {
  $fileMetadata = $client->beta->files->upload(
    file: FileParam::fromResource($fd, filename: '/path/to/file', contentType: '…'),
  );
} finally {
  fclose($fd);
}

$message = $client->messages->create(
  maxTokens: 1024,
  messages: [['role' => 'user', 'content' => 'Hello, Claude']],
  model: 'claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929',
  requestOptions: [
    'extraQueryParams' => ['my_query_parameter' => 'value'],
    'extraBodyParams' => ['my_body_parameter' => 'value'],
    'extraHeaders' => ['my-header' => 'value'],
  ],
);

$response = $client->request(
  method: "post",
  path: '/undocumented/endpoint',
  query: ['dog' => 'woof'],
  headers: ['useful-header' => 'interesting-value'],
  body: ['hello' => 'world']
);