POST call fails (file_get_contents warning?) - php

Question

I want to make a post call with the following code:
function addWorkout() {
// url for workouts
$url = "https://jawbone.com/nudge/api/v.1.1/users/#me/workouts";
// set data to send
$data = http_build_query(array(
'time_created' => intval($_GET['starttime']),
'time_completed' => intval($_GET['endtime']),
'sub_type' => intval($_GET['sport']),
'calories' => intval($_GET['calories']),
));
var_dump($data);
$options = array(
'http' => array(
"header" => "Content-Type: Authorization: Bearer {$_COOKIE['access_token']}\r\n",
'method' => 'POST',
'content' => $data
),
);
var_dump($options);
$context = stream_context_create($options);
$result = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
var_dump($result);
}
However it doesn't successfully make the post call. The following message appears:
Warning: file_get_contents(https://...#me/workouts): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found in C:\wamp\www\FitnessWebApp\.idea\html\sport.php on line 90
Call Stack
# Time Memory Function Location
1 0.0006 280568 {main}( ) ..\sport.php:0
2 1.2201 293408 addWorkout( ) ..\sport.php:19
3 1.2204 296272 file_get_contents ( ) ..\sport.php:90
var_dump of $data:
string 'time_created=1368652731&time_completed=1368656325&sub_type=1&calories=333' (length=73)
var_dump of $options:
array (size=1)
'http' =>
array (size=3)
'header' => string 'Content-Type: Authorization: Bearer ...
' (length=166)
'method' => string 'POST' (length=4)
'content' => string 'time_created=1368652731&time_completed=1368656325&sub_type=1&calories=333' (length=73)
API documentation shows the following example:
POST https://jawbone.com/nudge/api/v.1.1/users/#me/workouts HTTP/1.1
Host: jawbone.com
time_created=1368652731&time_completed=1368656325&sub_type=3&calories=115

Answer 1

Ok, you want to do a POST request with file_get_contents.
I think the error is in this line:
´"header" => "Content-Type: Authorization: Bearer {$_COOKIE['access_token']}\r\n"
There are two elements here Content-Type and Authorization.
I suggest to alter this into:
$options = array(
'http' => array(
"header" => [
"Authorization: Bearer " . $_COOKIE['access_token'],
"Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded"],
'method' => 'POST',
'content' => $data
),
);
I don't know if Content-Type is correct, normally API's use "Content-Type: application/json"
Or just leave it away.

Answer 2

file get contents does not work with https. You will have to use curl instead.
/* gets the data from a URL */
function get_data($url) {
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); //will not complain about certs
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $data;
}
then call
$returned_content = get_data('https://jawbone.com/nudge/api/v.1.1/users/#me/workouts');