Inserting Data Using PHP Curl - php

Question

I am trying to add the following data to my database using curl. It insert's the data but the data inserted is blank
Employee Name = Test
Employee Salary = 100
Employee Age = 28
This is my code in inserting the data:
// set post fields
$data["employee_name"] = "test";
$data["employee_salary"] = 1;
$data["employee_age"] = 1;
$ch = curl_init('http://localhost/cloud/v1/employees');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
// execute!
$response = curl_exec($ch);
// close the connection, release resources used
curl_close($ch);
// do anything you want with your response
var_dump($response);
This is my Function in getting the data :
function insert_employee()
{
global $connection;
$data = json_decode(file_get_contents('php://input'), true);
$employee_name=$data["employee_name"];
$employee_salary=$data["employee_salary"];
$employee_age=$data["employee_age"];
echo $query="INSERT INTO employee SET employee_name='".$employee_name."', employee_salary='".$employee_salary."', employee_age='".$employee_age."'";
if(mysqli_query($connection, $query))
{
$response=array(
'status' => 1,
'status_message' =>'Employee Added Successfully.'
);
}
else
{
$response=array(
'status' => 0,
'status_message' =>'Employee Addition Failed.'
);
}
header('Content-Type: application/json');
echo json_encode($response);
}
Thank you

Answer 1

Replace this line:
$data = json_decode(file_get_contents('php://input'), true);
with:
$data = $_POST;
PHP will take your POSTed data and push it straight into a global $_POST array. No need to play with json_decode (unless you have posted a JSON string) or php://input.
Be aware, however, that blindly trusting posted data, and concatenating posted variables into a SQL statement is a huge security hole! Please look in to prepared statements and input validation.