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Can someone write a PHP script that reproduces the functionality of this linux shell command?
curl -X POST -u "USERNAME:PASS" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{"aps": {"alert": "this is a message"}}' \
https://mywebsite.com/push/service/
I think I almost got it in my code, but I'm not sure how to handle the --data attribute.
Here's what my code looks like so far:
$headers = array();
$headers[] = "Content-Type: application/json";
$body = '{"aps":{"alert":"this is a message"}}';
$ch = curl_init();
// Set the cURL options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://mywebsite.com/push/service/");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "USERNAME:PASSWORD");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $body);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
// Execute post
$result = curl_exec($ch);
// Close connection
curl_close($ch);
print_r($result);
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What is a flag in Curl? A flag is a command-line parameter that denotes a specific action in Curl. Curl has over three hundred command-line options, and the number of options increases over time.
Send JSON data via POST with PHP cURLInitiate new cURL resource using curl_init(). Setup data in PHP array and encode into a JSON string using json_encode(). Attach JSON data to the POST fields using the CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS option. Set the Content-Type of request to application/json using the CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER option.
curl setopt($ch, option, value) sets a cURL session option defined by the ch parameter. The value specifies the value for the specified option, and the option specifies which option to set. Return page contents with curl setopt($ch, CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER, 1). If the value is zero, no output will be returned.
When CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER is set to true the whole fetched content is held in memory when set to false you only have the unechoed buffer in memory. To verify just try to fetch something very small.
example in:
http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/articles/using_cURL.html
curl https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin \
--data-urlencode [email protected] --data-urlencode Passwd=new+foundland \
-d accountType=GOOGLE \
-d source=Google-cURL-Example \
-d service=lh2
A general rule: use the "--libcurl example.c" option to get curl to generate source code for a C program that would use libcurl. The API is very similar to the PHP/CURL one as you will see and you should then quickly realize that --data translates to CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.
Oh, and you'll note that the -X usage is completely superfluous! ;-)
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