Getting Started with the Marvel API in PHP

Marvel recently launched an API that allows developers limited access to its vast database.

The API.

The API is simple to understand and fully documented at: http://developer.marvel.com/docs
You need to create a Marvel account to use the API.

Diving into the API.

To use the API, you need the following things:
1. A public key (API key)
2. A private key
3. A timestamp
4. A md5 message digest

The first two are given to you as soon as you create a developer account at Marvel.
The time-stamp is a unique dynamically generated identifier generated by a requesting system at run time.

The md5 message digest is a combination of time-stamp, private key and public key.