Curl to PHP with array, probably simple answer - php

Question

I'm new to curl in PHP... and I was just wondering how to transform this curl command into PHP:
curl https://ancient-test.chargebee.com/api/v1/portal_sessions \
-u test_rdsfgfgfddsffds: \
-d customer[id]="EXAMPLE" \
-d redirect_url="https://yourdomain.com/users/3490343"
Right now I've got:
$post_data['customer']['id'] = "EXAMPLE";
$post_data['redirect_url'] = "http://" . SITE_URL . "/myaccount/";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,"https://ancient-test.chargebee.com/api/v1/portal_sessions");
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_USERPWD,"test_rdsfgfgfddsffds:");
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST,1);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$post_data);
$output = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
But I get the error message:
{"errors":[{"message":"There were errors while submitting"},{"param":"customer[id]","message":"cannot be blank"}]}
Thanks for your help!
Jan

Answer 1

https://github.com/CircleOfNice/CiRestClientBundle
This one has a beautiful api.
$client->post($url, $payload, $options);

Answer 2

Using curl here's probably the answer Posting with PHP and Curl, deep array
$post_data['customer[id]'] = "EXAMPLE";
Guzzle is an awesome HTTP client library wrapping curl in PHP that will make your life way easier :)
With guzzle v6 your php code would look like this :
$client = new GuzzleHttp\Client();
$res = $client->request('POST', 'https://ancient-test.chargebee.com/api/v1/portal_sessions', [
'auth' => ['test_rdsfgfgfddsffds', 'password'],
'json' => [customer => [id => 'EXAMPLE']]
]);