John Davidson

Message:

I have the following function:

function postCurl($url, $data){

    $data = json_encode($data);

    $ch = curl_init( $url);

    curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0 );

    curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0 );

    curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1 );

    curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);

    curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1 );

    curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_IPRESOLVE, CURL_IPRESOLVE_V4 );

    curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1 );

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



    $result = curl_exec( $ch );

    curl_close( $ch );

        

        return $result;

}

This function converts a (multidimensional) array to JSON should post it with curl.

The requested url simply returns all post values with:

echo '<pre>'.print_r(json_decode(file_get_contents("php://input")),1).'</pre>';

I verified with Postman that the requested url is working but when I post via curl I get no result.
The only way I could replicate this issue with Postmanwas sending incorrect JSON so I bypassed the json_encode function and tried a valid JSON string but no result.

I got this function working in the past so I think it must be an issue with the settings.

Any help would be appreciated.

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My Answer:
The issue might be with the way you are encoding the data before sending it with cURL.

Try encoding the data using `http_build_query` instead of `json_encode` before setting it as the POSTFIELDS in cURL.

Here is an updated version of your function:

php
function postCurl($url, $data){
$data = http_build_query($data);
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_IPRESOLVE, CURL_IPRESOLVE_V4);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded'));

$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

return $result;
}


This should properly encode the data before sending it with cURL.