posting JSON DATA and request header using cURL PHP - php

Question

This is my sample JSON Request
{
"Username":"admin",
"Password":"root123",
"PinCode” : "hello321"
}
And also I want to post a request token as well, the request token has to be posted as a Request Header.
When I successfully sent those data and valid token, I need to receive a jSON response as below,
{
"Title": "Mr.",
"Name": "Pushkov",
"Age": "18"
}
My Question is,
How can I POST my above mentioned JSON data and the token in PHP cURL and display an error if the details are wrong in code igniter?
This is what I have done so far..and its not giving me the exact output im looking for and I couldn't figure out a way to send my token as a header request...
public function send_veri(){
$url='http://helloworld21.azurewebsites.net/api/member/login';
$ch = curl_init('http://localhost/apphome');
$data = array("Username" =>$this->input->post('un'), "Password" =>$this->input->post('pw'), "PinCode" =>$this->input->post('VerificationCode'));
$data_string = json_encode($data);
// Disable SSL verification
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_string);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
'Content-Type: application/json',
'Content-Length: ' . strlen($data_string))
);
// Will return the response, if false it print the response
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
// Set the url
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
// Execute
$result=curl_exec($ch);
}
once I run this, I could only get Username, Password and the PinCode only. I cannot post the request token in my header, in causing of that i cannot get the member detail response.

Answer 1

For Sending Data -
public function send_veri(){
$url='http://helloworld21.azurewebsites.net/api/member/login';
$ch = curl_init( $url );
$bodyData=json_encode(array()); // here you send body Data
$data = json_encode(array("Username" =>$this->input->post('un'), "Password" =>$this->input->post('pw'), "PinCode" =>$this->input->post('VerificationCode')));
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $bodyData );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("headerdata: ".$data.",Content-Type:application/json"));
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
}
Get Header data on Apache Server Code -
$hEAdERS = apache_request_headers();
$data = json_decode($hEAdERS['headerdata'], true);
echo $contentType=$hEAdERS['Content-Type'];
echo $Username = #trim($data['Username']);
echo $Password = #trim($data['Password']);
echo $PinCode = #trim($data['PinCode']);
It works for me.