PHP Curl Send JSON Data

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I am following this tutorial: https://lornajane.net/posts/2011/posting-json-data-with-php-curl

what I am trying to do is POST JSON Data through CURL

$url = "http://localhost/test/test1.php";  
$data = array("name" => "Hagrid", "age" => "36");

$data_string = json_encode($data);                                                                                                                     
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_string);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,array("Content-type: application/json", "Content-Length: " . strlen($data_string)));
$result = curl_exec($ch);
var_dump($result);

when I POST plain text data , I am able to receive that, but when I try through JSON , I am not able to receive that.

Here is my test1.php

test1.php

print_r($_POST);
print_r($_POST);

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

@delboy1978uk no error, it does send a request to a page, but test1.php is not accepting $_POST when I try to send json string. — user7498776
– user7498776, Commented Sep 18, 2017 at 14:49
Wait, both files are on the same server? Why do an HTTP request? Why not just require in test1.php and use $result there? — delboy1978uk
– delboy1978uk, Commented Sep 18, 2017 at 15:18

Mayank Pandeyz · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-18 14:48:17Z

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When you POST JSON Data through cURL, you have to use php://input. You can use it like:

// get the raw POST data
$rawData = file_get_contents("php://input");

// this returns null if not valid json
return json_decode($rawData, true);  // will return array

php://input is a read-only stream that allows you to read raw data from the request body

The PHP superglobal $_POST, only is supposed to wrap data that is either

application/x-www-form-urlencoded (standard content type for simple form-posts) or
multipart/form-data-encoded (mostly used for file uploads)

The content would now be application/json (or at least none of the above mentioned), so PHP's $_POST -wrapper doesn't know how to handle that (yet).

Reference

answered Sep 18, 2017 at 14:48

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TrickyDupes · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-18 14:49:17Z

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JSON data does not come through in $_POST. You need to use file_get_contents('php://input');

You will also need to json_decode it.

$json = json_decode(file_get_contents('php://input'));

var_dump($json);

answered Sep 18, 2017 at 14:49

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