How to fetch response from a callback URL using php? - php

Question

I want to build a WhatsApp bot, for that, we are using Gupshup WhatsApp bot API, for integration they asked to give a callback URL, so created index.php in cPanel of one domain(https://sample_url/WhatsappBot/index.php), and gave the URL (https://sample_url/WhatsappBot/). As per their API documentation, they will pass a response to that URL, so I want to fetch that. Here is the remaining part of API documentation API documentation2, API documentation3, API documentation4. So I created one curl.php named file, that code is given below.
<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://sample_url/WhatsappBot/');
// curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
$headers = array();
$headers[] = 'Content-Type: application/json';
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
if (curl_errno($ch))
{
echo 'Error:' . curl_error($ch) ."\n";
}
else
{
$result_value = json_decode($result,true,JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);
echo $result_value;
// var_dump($result_value);
}
curl_close($ch);
?>
they provided a collection of API for reference, but I am getting the wrong result. In their collection API have the result,
Collection API result
but I am getting this,
myresult
What is the wrong in this code? Can anyone please help me...

Answer 1

Your Callback URL should contain a program that receive a POST data as JSON, Go ahead to decode the JSON data, using the data received, proceed with what ever logic you plan to execute.
//this should be in your call back URL index.php
$post_data_expected = file_get_contents("php://input");
$decoded_data = json_decode($post_data_expected, true);
You can your POSTMAN to always test your callback URL to see it behaves the way you expects.