PHP cURL send bool POST variable

Question

I'm having PHP curl script that send some POST variables to CloudFlare API: My fields are:

    $fields = array(
        'type' => 'A',
        'name' => $subdomain.rand(1, 2000),
        'content' => Env::getCFIP(),
        'proxied' => true,
        'ttl' => 1
    );

And the curl curl_setopt are:

        array(
            CURLOPT_POST            => true,
            CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER  => false,
            CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS      => $fields,
            CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER  => 1,
            CURLOPT_TIMEOUT         => 3,
            CURLOPT_VERBOSE         => 0,
            CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE    => true,
            CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER      => array(
                'X-Auth-Email: '.Env::getCFEmail(),
                'X-Auth-Key: '.Env::getCFAuthKey(),
            )
        );

Default is value of 'proxied' is false. If I skip it in data fields, scripts works. However, I want to have it on true, but I get error:

    object(stdClass)[2]
      public 'success' => boolean false
      public 'errors' => 
        array (size=1)
          0 => 
            object(stdClass)[8]
              public 'code' => int 1004
              public 'message' => string 'DNS Validation Error' (length=20)
              public 'error_chain' => 
                array (size=1)
                  0 => 
                    object(stdClass)[7]
                       public 'code' => int 9003
                       public 'message' => string 'Invalid 'proxied' value, must be a boolean' (length=42)
      public 'messages' => 
        array (size=0)
          empty
      public 'result' => null

So my guess is that when cURL send POST request it converts data variables to STRING. Is there any way to stop this behavior?

@tanaydin , setting it up as 1, '1', 'true', 'True', does not work. — Stanislav Stankov
– Stanislav Stankov, Commented Sep 7, 2017 at 22:27
@tanaydin casting it to bool, int, or casting $fields array as object do not work. I still got the same error. — Stanislav Stankov
– Stanislav Stankov, Commented Sep 7, 2017 at 22:44

Stanislav Stankov · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-07 22:47:49Z

2

I manage to solve that one by:

Encoding fields as json:

    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS      => json_encode($fields),

Adding 'Content-Type: application/json' in headers

    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER      => array(
        'X-Auth-Email: '.Env::getCFEmail(),
        'X-Auth-Key: '.Env::getCFAuthKey(),
        'Content-Type: application/json',

answered Sep 7, 2017 at 22:47

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e_i_pi Over a year ago

I was going to say, payloads via cURL are normally JSON or XML format, depending on the API endpoint.

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