Posting JSON Data With PHP cURL

Question

Situation

I want to post JSON data using php cURL into my url http://localhost/api_v2/url?key=***

Here is what I have tried

POST function

public function post(){

    $ch = curl_init("http://localhost/api_v2/url?key=***");

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

    $file_name = 'inventory.csv';
    $file_path = 'C:\\QuickBooks\\'.$file_name;
    $csv= file_get_contents($file_path);
    $utf8_csv = utf8_encode($csv);
    $array = array_map("str_getcsv", explode("\n", $utf8_csv));
    $json = json_encode($array, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(                                                                          
        'Content-Type: application/json',                                                                                
        'Content-Length: ' . strlen($json))                                                                       
    );

    curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $json ); 

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array('data' => $json));

    $result = curl_exec($ch);

    $status = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
    if($status == 200){
        echo "Post Successfully!";
    }
}

I am not familiar with laravel, but don't you need to add line curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $json ); before curl_exec($ch)? — Alex
– Alex, Commented Jan 30, 2015 at 19:07
agreed with Kim, strlen($json) is only to send the string length, but the post data has to be sent to the server in CURL — Kumar Saurabh Sinha
– Kumar Saurabh Sinha, Commented Jan 30, 2015 at 19:08
echo json_encode(['message'=>'Post Successfully!'']); exit() — Alex
– Alex, Commented Jan 30, 2015 at 19:20
@KimAlexander Please add your comment as an answer so the OP can accept it :) — lukasgeiter
– lukasgeiter, Commented Jan 30, 2015 at 19:29

code-8 · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-05 15:49:13Z

5

Your error is in this line

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array('data' => $json));

Just change it to

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode(array('json' => $json)));

Let me know, how it goes !

answered Feb 5, 2015 at 15:49

code-8

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Alex · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-30 19:30:28Z

3

I am not familiar with laravel,

but don't you need to add line

curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $json );

before

curl_exec($ch)?

answered Jan 30, 2015 at 19:30

Alex

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3 Comments

iori Over a year ago

When I used Postman test go to this url http://localhost/api_v2/url/post?key=*** I got Illuminate \ Session \ TokenMismatchException Do you know why ?

Alex Over a year ago

sorry, I have no idea what is your webservce is like... and what is Postman :-) ?

iori Over a year ago

can you delete your answer, so I can delete this question Freely .

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