Webservice not able to parse JSON Request from a PHP file

Question

I'm trying to access a webservice. I'm already using this webservice from an android app but now I need to access some functions from a php document. If I use chromes advanced rest client application for testing it works fine if I select the POST option and application/x-www-form-urlencode as content-type. But when I try to access the webservice from my PHP file I get the response from the server that it can't find the value "tag". This is the code:

$data = array( 'tag' => 'something');

$options = array('http' => array(
'method' => 'POST',
'content' => $data,
'header' => "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencode")
);

$context = stream_context_create($options);
$url = 'myurl';
$result = file_get_contents($url,false,$context);
$response = json_decode($result);

What is wrong with this code?

Thanks for any help!

Stefano P. · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-02 07:34:02Z

1

Try this:

$data = http_build_query( array( 'tag' => 'something') );

As defined here, "Content" value must be a string: http_build_query generate the URL-encoded query string you need.

answered Sep 2, 2015 at 7:34

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spcial Over a year ago

Thank you for the information. I tried with http_build_query but still my $_POST['tag'] call in my server side code is empty :(

spcial Over a year ago

Ah I found the mistake: I had a typo in my header definition: T of Type should be small and it is urlencoded not urlencode. This in addition with http_build_query works! Thanks!

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