DialmyCall API Curl to PHP - php

Question

UPDATE*
<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $_ENV["https://cf6307f08afef7f0f9f449a55c6fd79b#api.dialmycalls.com/2.0/service/text"]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$data = array (
'name' => 'Dorothy',
'keyword_id' => '351aa984-9a7b-11e8-a4d5-0cc47ab3cb58',
'messages' => 'test123456',
array ("contacts" => array(
array(
"phone" => "12294622255"
))));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
$headers = array();
$headers[] = "Content-Type: application/json";
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($data));
$result = curl_exec($ch);
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
echo 'Error:' . curl_error($ch);
}
curl_close ($ch);
?>
I am still getting
`Error: malformed`
So maybe a little more information about the json construction might help
These are the required fields
name - > name of broadcast
keyword_id - > 351aa984-9a7b-11e8-a4d5-0cc47ab3cb58
messages - > list format but only sending single message "test123456"
contacts - > List format with substring of phone: then number 1234567891
ORIGINAL QUESTION
So i am trying to setup a php page with DialMyCall's API just to sent text with the variables
$numbers (Command Delimited)
$message (message of SMS)
The example that DialMyCode gives is
curl -i -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d "{\"keyword_id\": \"dfe49537-a0a8-4f4a-98a1-e03df388af11\", \"send_immediately\": true,\"messages\": [\"Testing testing\"], \"contacts\": [{\"phone\":\"1116551235\"},{\"phone\":\"1116551234\"}]}" https://$API_KEY#api.dialmycalls.com/2.0/service/text
I have tried to convert this into php but i cannot get it to work
<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $_ENV["https://APIKEY#api.dialmycalls.com/2.0/service/text"]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array (
'name' => 'Dorothy',
'keyword_id' => '351aa984-9a7b-11e8-a4d5-0cc47ab3cb58',
'message' => 'test123456',
'contacts' => 'phone: [phone]',
));
curl_setopt($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);
}
curl_close ($ch);
?>
Error recieved
Error: malformed
What i should get is a success message in JSON and a text message sent.

Answer 1

You need to send your data as a JSON string. When you pass an array to CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, it formats/passes it like form data. Here, you want to pass a json object as the body, so use something like this below:
$data = array (
'name' => 'Dorothy',
'keyword_id' => '351aa984-9a7b-11e8-a4d5-0cc47ab3cb58',
'messages' => array('test123456'),
'contacts' => array(
array('phone' => '1234567891')
)
);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($data));