Send json post using php

Question

I have this json data:

{      userID: 'a7664093-502e-4d2b-bf30-25a2b26d6021',     itemKind: 0,     value: 1,     description: 'Saude',     itemID: '03e76d0a-8bab-11e0-8250-000c29b481aa' } 

and I need to post into json url: http://domain/OnLeagueRest/resources/onleague/Account/CreditAccount

using php how can I send this post request?

Answer 1

You can use CURL for this purpose see the example code:

$url = "your url";     $content = json_encode("your data to be sent");  $curl = curl_init($url); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,         array("Content-type: application/json")); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $content);  $json_response = curl_exec($curl);  $status = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);  if ( $status != 201 ) {     die("Error: call to URL $url failed with status $status, response $json_response, curl_error " . curl_error($curl) . ", curl_errno " . curl_errno($curl)); }   curl_close($curl);  $response = json_decode($json_response, true); 

Answer 2

Without using any external dependency or library:

$options = array(   'http' => array(     'method'  => 'POST',     'content' => json_encode( $data ),     'header'=>  "Content-Type: application/json\r\n" .                 "Accept: application/json\r\n"     ) );  $context  = stream_context_create( $options ); $result = file_get_contents( $url, false, $context ); $response = json_decode( $result ); 

$response is an object. Properties can be accessed as usual, e.g. $response->...

where $data is the array contaning your data:

$data = array(   'userID'      => 'a7664093-502e-4d2b-bf30-25a2b26d6021',   'itemKind'    => 0,   'value'       => 1,   'description' => 'Boa saudaÁ„o.',   'itemID'      => '03e76d0a-8bab-11e0-8250-000c29b481aa' ); 

Warning: this won't work if the allow_url_fopen setting is set to Off in the php.ini.

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