Sending complex json data on PHP POST [duplicate]

Question

I need to call a post method containing complex body data:

{
    "client": {
      "clientId":      "yourcompanyname",
      "clientVersion": "1.5.2"
    },
    "threatInfo": {
      "threatTypes":      ["MALWARE", "SOCIAL_ENGINEERING"],
      "platformTypes":    ["WINDOWS"],
      "threatEntryTypes": ["URL"],
      "threatEntries": [
        {"url": "http://www.urltocheck1.org/"},
        {"url": "http://www.urltocheck2.org/"},
        {"url": "http://www.urltocheck3.com/"}
      ]
    }
  }

I found different examples using curl and using stream_context_create but all examples simply use an array as body data. None had a complex json-structure as needed in my example. How can this be achieved?

Isn't this the same question as stackoverflow.com/questions/11079135/…? Can't you just json_encode your data? — Chin Leung
– Chin Leung, Commented Feb 19, 2019 at 19:02
@OleAlbers Did you actually try to follow any of the examples that you found? Or did you just assume that they wouldn't do what you wanted? If you did try, please include your attempts in your question along with the results. — Patrick Q
– Patrick Q, Commented Feb 19, 2019 at 19:05
My problem simply is that I do not have a simple flat Key/Value-Pair Structure as required by arrays, but hierarchical data. — Ole Albers
– Ole Albers, Commented Feb 19, 2019 at 19:10

Vencendor · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-19 19:27:51Z

1

Try :

$ch=curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($data) );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
// not necessarily but ... 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
    'Content-Type: application/json',
    'Content-Length: ' . strlen($payload))
);

$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

answered Feb 19, 2019 at 19:27

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