Post the data with header in curl not working in php? - php

Question

I'm trying to create the box app users using PHP. The curl for create user as follows, and it is working on terminal
curl https://api.box.com/2.0/users \
-H "Authorization: Bearer <Access token>" \
-d '{"name": "New User", "is_platform_access_only": true}' \
-X POST
Same thing I have tried with php But it is giving the following error
{"type":"error","status":400,"code":"invalid_request_parameters","help_url":"http:\/\/developers.box.com\/docs\/#errors","message":"Invalid input parameters in request","request_id":"6688622675982fb5339a37"}
The following one I have tried
$developer_token = "TOKEN" ;
$access_token_url = "https://api.box.com/2.0/users";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL, $access_token_url);
//Adding Parameters
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array(
'name'=>'NEW USER',
'is_platform_access_only'=>'true',
));
//Adding Header
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
'Authorization: Bearer '.$developer_token
));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$response1 = curl_exec($ch);
If I remove the Post parameters, and run with only headers it is give the result of users. But with post it is throws error.

Answer 1

I have rise the same question in Perl tag with Perl code. There I got answer by user #melpomene.
We should encode the data as JSON. It is working,
Then the final code is
$data = array(name=>SOMENAME,is_platform_access_only=>true);
$data = json_encode($data);
$header = array("Authorization: Bearer <TOKEN>");
$ch = curl_init("https://api.box.com/2.0/users/");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$response1 = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);