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I like to post a JSON object with curl. All I have is that piece of code:
curl -X POST \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "X-Access-Token: ###secureToken###" \
-H "Cache-Control: no-cache" \
-d '{
"frames": [
{
"index": 0,
"text": "SUCCESS",
"icon": null
}
]
}' \
https://developer.lametric.com/api/V1/dev/widget/update/com.lametric.###appid###
What to do now exactly, to make this happen in PHP? Could you please post an example?

Answer 1

// init curl
$handle = curl_init();
// set options/parameters
curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://developer.lametric.c...');
curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'the-json-encoded-data-here' );
curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true ); // you want to get the response
// set headers
curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array( 'Accept: application/json',
'....' ) );
// execute the request and get the response
$response = curl_exec( $handle );
// get the status too
$status = curl_getinfo( $handle, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE );
// release resources
curl_close( $handle );
Just an example/introduction.
You initialize php's curl.
Setup all the parameters.
Send the request.
I won't write all the code for you.
PHP Reference is clear (and have examples too)
http://php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php
SO have examples too:
PHP + curl, HTTP POST sample code?

Answer 2

Or without curl, very generic pattern that I use to keep dependencies down.
<?php
$reqBody = array(
'frames' => array(
'index' => 0,
'text' => "SUCCESS",
'icon' => null
)
);
$bodyString = json_encode($reqBody);
$access_token = "###secureToken###";
$context_options = array (
'http' => array (
'method' => 'POST',
'header' => "Accept: application/json\r\nX-Access-Token: " . $access_token . "\r\nCache-Control: no-cache\r\nContent-Length: " . strlen($bodyString) . "\r\n",
'content' => $bodyString
)
);
$context_for_post = stream_context_create($context_options);
$response = file_get_contents($"https://developer.lametric.com/api/V1/dev/widget/update/com.lametric.###appid###", FALSE, $context_for_post);
// Check for errors
if(!$response){
die("<h2>ERROR</h2>");
}
// Decode the response
$responseData = json_decode($response, TRUE);
// some examples of parsing response json ...
if ($responseData['message'] != null) {
}
$this->sessionToken = $responseData['message']['data']['results']['token'];
if($this->sessionToken === FALSE) {
die('Failed to Parse Response');
}
?>
If the web server doesn't seem to like your post, it might be expecting form-data type of POST, so set up the body and headers like this:
$bodyString = "------WebKitFormBoundaryiAsuvpNuslAE3Kqx\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"json\"\r\n\r\n" .
json_encode($reqBody) .
"\r\n------WebKitFormBoundaryiAsuvpNuslAE3Kqx--\r\n";
$access_token = "###secureToken###";
$context_options = array (
'http' => array (
'method' => 'POST',
'header' => "X-Access-Token: " . $access_token . "\r\nCache-Control: no-cache\r\nAccept: application/json\r\nContent-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryiAsuvpNuslAE3Kqx\r\n" . "Content-Length: " . strlen($bodyString) . "\r\n",
'content' => $bodyString
)
);