How to send JSON and retrieve it using cURL? - php

Question

This link = http://localhost/api_v2/url?key=***
will return this list of JSON :
I've already tested by :
Navigate to http://localhost/api_v2/url?key=*** through a browser
And make a curl request via command line $ curl http://localhost/api_v2/url?key=***
either way will give return the JSON, and give me the same result.
Well, what I can tell by that is my $array is storing something in it.
Even if I did dd($array) - I still get the same result.
Here is what I've
Here is how I establish my JSON
public function index_2(){
$file_name = 'inventory.csv';
$file_path = 'C:\\QuickBooks\\'.$file_name;
$csv= file_get_contents($file_path);
$utf8_csv = utf8_encode($csv);
$array = array_map("str_getcsv", explode("\n", $utf8_csv));
return Response::json($array);
}
Here is how I make a cURL request and trying to retrieve that JSON
<?php
$ch = curl_init("http://localhost/api_v2/url?key=***");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "admin:*****");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$body = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$json_decode = json_decode($array, TRUE);
I keep getting complaint that $array variable is not define, but in fact I did define and send it over like this return Response::json($array); .
I am not sure what I did wrong here.

Answer 1

Spot the difference:
$body = curl_exec($ch);
^^^^^
$json_decode = json_decode($array, TRUE);
^^^^^^