Send array as json and read that data

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I am encoding array as json and sending it by curl to other file:

$data = array(
  "authorizedKey" => "abbad35c5c01-xxxx-xxx",
  "senderEmail" => "[email protected]",
  "recipientEmail" => "[email protected]",
  "comment" => "Invitation",
  "forceDebitCard" => "false"
);

$data = json_encode($data);

$ch = curl_init('http://localhost/curl/1.php');
$headers = array('Accept: application/json','Content-Type: application/json'); 

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

echo curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

Problem is http://localhost/curl/1.php dont recieve any $_POST and I dont know how to operate on posted data.

http://localhost/curl/1.php output:

Headers:
  Host = localhost
  Accept = application/json
  Content-Type = application/json
  Content-Length = 166
GET:
 empty
POST:
 empty

Consider using Guzzle instead of straight up curl_* functions. — aborted
– aborted, Commented Jul 19, 2016 at 11:43

onesvat · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-19 12:01:18Z

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You are sending data by using request body, and you are supposed to get data by request body not $_POST super global. You can use following code to get whole data.

$entityBody = file_get_contents('php://input');

answered Jul 19, 2016 at 12:01

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Barmar · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-19 12:11:30Z

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If you want the data to show up in $_POST, don't encode it as JSON. Just pass the $data array to the CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS option, and don't send the Content-type: application/json header. cURL will then use the normal encoding for POST data, which PHP can convert into fields in the $_POST variable.

answered Jul 19, 2016 at 12:11

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user3041764 Over a year ago

You have right, but it is not working with multidimensional array.

Barmar Over a year ago

stackoverflow.com/a/8224117/1491895 shows how to convert a multi-dimensional array to a URL-encoded query.

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