Pass Number Field As An Array - php

Question

I am using a online laravel api doc to execute a program. When i run my code in postman, i get the error "pass number field as an array". But the number field is being already passed as an array field. What could i be missing below in my code ? Thanks in advance
public function testAPI(Request $request)
{
$on_call_back = 'https://learntoday.co.uk/var';
$id = '*****';
$url = $on_call_back.'?key='.$id;
$variables = [
'number' => ['44234200234,44234242002'],
'from' => 'world',
'content' => 'I love to code',
];
$ch = curl_init();
$headers = array();
$headers[] = "Content-Type: application/json";
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($variables));
$result = curl_exec($ch);
$result = json_decode($result, TRUE);
return $data;
curl_close($ch);
}
When i print out my results, this is what i see
Array
(
[number] => Array
(
[0] => '44234200234,44234242002'
)
[from] => world
[content] => i love to code
)
{"status":"error","message":"Pass number field as an array"}
Here is the update of how it appears now
Array
(
[recipient] => Array
(
[0] => 44234200234
[1] => 44234242002
)
[from] => world
[content] => i love to code
)

Answer 1

You should try this:
public function testAPI(Request $request)
{
$on_call_back = 'https://learntoday.co.uk/var';
$id = '*****';
$url = $on_call_back.'?key='.$id;
$variables = [
'number' => ['44234200234','44234242002'],
'from' => 'world',
'content' => 'I love to code',
];
$ch = curl_init();
$headers = array();
$headers[] = "Content-Type: application/json";
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($variables));
$result = curl_exec($ch);
$result = json_decode($result, TRUE);
return $data;
curl_close($ch);
}

Answer 2

You should try passing numbers on different indexes of array:
$variables = [
'number' => ['44234200234','44234242002'],
'from' => 'world',
'content' => 'I love to code',
];
Currently you are passing both numbers separated with , on 0 index.

Answer 3

Try Like This :
$numbersArray = array("44234200234","44234242002");
$variables = [
//'number' => ['44234200234','44234242002'],
'number' => $numbersArray,
'from' => 'world',
'content' => 'I love to code',
];
Ideally Old solution should work but you can try like this and check it.

Answer 4

You are passing your array as 1 string. To achieve with this (incorrect) approach, you would need to seperate the strings by a comma, and then convert each string to an integer.
'number' => ['44234200234,44234242002,1,2,3,4'], // this is ONE string
'number' => ['1', '2', '3', '4'] // this is many strings
What you want to do is pass an array of integers
numbers => [1, 2, 3]
Happy coding :-)

Answer 5

Try to use serialize function:
$on_call_back = 'https://learntoday.co.uk/var';
$id = '*****';
$url = $on_call_back.'?key='.$id;
$variables = [
'number' => serialize(['44234200234','44234242002']),
'from' => 'world',
'content' => 'I love to code',
];