PHP cURL body does not work with multiple arrays - php

Question

I need to send a data via cURL in PHP.
There is my POST request and it works with this example (I can post 1 record).
$postData = array(
"username" => "email#domain.com",
"name" => "Name",
"surname" => "Surname",
'role' => 'user',
"disabled" => "false"
);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $this->getCurlUrl());
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 10);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
curl_setopt_array($ch,
array(
CURLOPT_POST => false,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => TRUE,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
'authorization: apikey '.$apikey,
'Content-Type: application/rest+json',
'pincode: '.$pincode
)
// ,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode($postData)
));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS , json_encode($postData));
$httpCode = curl_getinfo($ch , CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE); // this results 0 every time
$response = curl_exec($ch);
if ($response === false) $response = curl_error($ch);
return stripslashes($response);
curl_close($ch);
But I would like to add records from database into $postData array but then it's stops.
This is my database array example:
$postData = array();
foreach ($records = $this->getRecords as $value) {
$row['username'] = $value['email'];
$row['name'] = $value['name'];
$row['surname'] = $value['surname'];
$row['role'] = 'User';
$row['disabled'] = $value['status'];
array_push($postData, $row);
}
json array looks ok but I can't find an error. Or i can't post multiple data and i need to add everything in a loop?

Answer 1

I find a few flaws in the code. You said that you are posting the code but you have set
CURLOPT_POST => false
Also, you have repeated
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => TRUE and CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1
Also, your API might be designed to accept one record but you are trying to send multiple records. If it is designed to accept 1 record at a time you should make the curl call a function and call it in place of array_push. eg:. curlfunction($row);
function curlfunction($postData){
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $this->getCurlUrl());
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 10);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST , 1);
curl_setopt_array($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
'authorization: apikey '.$apikey,
'Content-Type: application/rest+json',
'pincode: '.$pincode
)
);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS , json_encode($postData));
$httpCode = curl_getinfo($ch , CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
if ($response === false) $response = curl_error($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return stripslashes($response);
}
and
foreach ($records = $this->getRecords as $value) {
$row['username'] = $value['email'];
$row['name'] = $value['name'];
$row['surname'] = $value['surname'];
$row['role'] = 'User';
$row['disabled'] = $value['status'];
curlfunction($row);
}