CORS or Cross-Origin Resource Sharing represents a mechanism that uses additional HTTP headers to grant a browser permission to access resources from a server at a different origin. It provides a secure way of sharing resources with different origins. Handling CORS in PHP however can be a bit tricky and have implications for security so it requires the correct expertise.
One method of solving headers CORS origin issue in PHP is by adding a header to the response that specifically allows the desired domain or all domains to make HTTP requests to your server.
To illustrate, consider the following simple scenario: you have an API developed that you want to access from a domain different from the one it is located. Obviously, our browser security flags it as a security risk and in such cases, you have to take control.
The following code snippet shows how to go on with this:
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