ServiceM8 Post JSON via Curl PHP and API - php

Question

Trying to send a post request to the ServiceM8 Api however when i attempt the request i get back no errors and nothing adding to the ServiceM8 api.
Here is what servicem8 docs suggest:
curl -u email:password
-H "Content-Type: application/json"
-H "Accept: application/json"
-d '{"status": "Quote", "job_address":"1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California 95014, United States","company_id":"Apple","description":"Client has requested quote for service delivery","contact_first":"John","contact_last":"Smith"}'
-X POST https://api.servicem8.com/api_1.0/job.json
and here is what i have:
$data = array(
"username" => "**************8",
"password" => "****************",
"job_address" => "1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California 95014, United States"
);
$url_send ="https://api.servicem8.com/api_1.0/job.json";
$str_data = json_encode($data);
function sendPostData($url, $post){
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$post);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
return $result;
-- UPDATE TO SHOW PREVIOUS ATTEMPTS TO RESOLVE BUT HAD NO LUCK..
<?php
$data = array(
"username" => "*******************",
"password" => "**********",
"job_address" => "1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California 95014, United States"
);
$url_send ="https://api.servicem8.com/api_1.0/job.json";
$str_data = json_encode($data);
function sendPostData($url, $post){
$headers= array('Accept: application/json','Content-Type: application/json');
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$post);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch); // Seems like good practice
return $result;
}
echo " " . sendPostData($url_send, $str_data);
?>
adding the headers as i have in that example still does nothing and does not create the record in servicem8 or show an error.
Hopefully someone can help me make the correct Curl request using the PHP libary.
Thanks

Answer 1

First issue is it looks like you are not setting authentication details correctly. To use HTTP basic auth in CURL:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username . ":" . $password);
Second issue is that job_status is a mandatory field when creating Jobs, so you need to make sure to include that as part of your create request.
Assuming that you receive a HTTP 200 response, then you the UUID of the record you just created is returned in the x-record-uuid header (docs). See this answer for an example of how to get headers from a HTTP response in CURL.
Here's your example code modified to include the above advice:
$data = array(
"job_address" => "1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California 95014, United States",
"status" => "Work Order"
);
$url_send = "https://api.servicem8.com/api_1.0/job.json";
$str_data = json_encode($data);
function sendPostData($url, $post, $username, $password) {
$ch = curl_init($url);
if ($username && $password) {
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username . ":" . $password);
}
$headers = array('Accept: application/json','Content-Type: application/json');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1); // Return HTTP headers as part of $result
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
// $result is the HTTP headers followed by \r\n\r\n followed by the HTTP body
$header_size = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE);
$header = substr($result, 0, $header_size);
$body = substr($result, $header_size);
$strRecordUUID = "";
$arrHeaders = explode("\r\n", $header);
foreach ($arrHeaders as $strThisHeader) {
list($name, $value) = explode(':', $strThisHeader);
if (strtolower($name) == "x-record-uuid") {
$strRecordUUID = trim($value);
break;
}
}
echo "The UUID of the created record is $strRecordUUID<br />";
return $body;
}
echo "the response from the server was <pre>" . sendPostData($url_send, $str_data, $username, $password) . "</pre>";