HTTP Post request from PHP to NodeJs Server - php

Question

I tried to make a request to my nodeJS using CURL from PHP.
Here is my code:
$host = 'http://my_ip:8080/ping';
$json = '{"id":"13"}';
$ch = curl_init($host);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $json);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
'Content-Type: application/json',
'Content-Length: ' . strlen($json))
);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
var_dump($data);
But it doesn't work. I received bool(FALSE) in data var.
NodeJS:
app.use(router(app));
app.post('/ping', bodyParser, ping);
port = 8080;
app.listen(port, webStatus(+port));
function* ping() {
console.log(this.request.body);
this.body = 1;
}
I tried with NodeJS Http-post and it works:
http.post = require('http-post');
http.post('http://my_ip:8080/ping', { id: '13' }, function (res) {
res.on('data', function (chunk) {
console.log(chunk);
});
});
Is it something wrong with PHP code?
PS: The CURL is included in PHP.

Answer 1

Your ping function is not well implemented I think.
Also, you need to call the send method in order to send the HTTP response.
You should declare the function like this :
app.use(bodyParser); // You can use a middleware like this too.
app.post('/ping', ping);
function ping (req, res) {
console.log(req.body); // Since you use `bodyParser` middleware, you can get the `body` directly.
// Do your stuff here.
res.status(200).send('toto');
}