php- curl isn't working - php

Question

Here is my code, I have two cURL statements in the same program. The first one uses $ch and second uses $ch1. The problem is first one is getting executed and showing the output but second one does nothing.
<?php
include ('DBconnect.php');
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
$verified = "1";
$error = array();
if (empty($_POST['name'])) {
$error[] = 'I am sure you have a name!';
}
else {
$name = $_POST['name'];
}
if (empty($_POST['phone'])) {
$error[] = 'Please enter your phone number with country code';
}
else {
$Phone = $_POST['phone'];
}
if (empty($_POST['Password'])) {
$error[] = 'Please choose a password ';
}
else {
$Password = $_POST['Password'];
}
if (empty($error)) //send to Database if there's no error '
{ // If everything's OK...
// Make sure the phone number is available:
$query_verify_phone = "SELECT * FROM members WHERE Phone ='$Phone'";
$result_verify_phone = mysqli_query($dbc, $query_verify_phone);
if (!$result_verify_phone) { //if the Query Failed ,similar to if($result_verify_phone==false)
echo ' Database Error Occured ';
}
if (mysqli_num_rows($result_verify_phone) == 0) { // IF no previous user is using this phone number.
$query_insert_user = "INSERT INTO `members` ( `Name`, `Phone`, `Password`, `Verified`) VALUES ( '$name', '$Phone', '$Password', '$verified')";
$result_insert_user = mysqli_query($dbc, $query_insert_user);
if (!$result_insert_user) {
echo 'Query Failed ';
}
if (mysqli_affected_rows($dbc) == 1) { //If the Insert Query was successfull.
$customerToken = "TOKEN HERE";
$clientTransactionId = rand(55555, 77777);
$duration = "180";
$countryCode = "91";
$z2vToken = "TOKEN HERE";
$postData = array(
'customerToken' => $customerToken,
'clientTransactionId' => $clientTransactionId,
'callerid' => $Phone,
'duration' => $duration,
'countryCode' => $countryCode,
'z2vToken' => $z2vToken,
);
// create post body
$post_body = '';
foreach($postData as $key => $value) {
$post_body.= urlencode($key) . '=' . urlencode($value) . '&';
}
$post_body = rtrim($post_body, '&');
// Initialize CURL data to send via POST to the API
// FIRST ONE CURL REQUEST- WORKING
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.zipdial.com/z2v/startTransaction.action");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_body);
// Execute CURL command and return into variable ch
$string = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$json = json_decode($string);
// now the json has been decoded
// echo "Please do a missed call on: ";
// echo "<img src=' ".$json->img."'>";
$pf = 'fl' . uniqid();
$un = uniqid($pf);
$fpl = 'img' . $un . '.png';
file_put_contents($fpl, file_get_contents($json->img));
Everything above goes fine but the second curl request is not working:
// EVERYTHING ABOVE GOES FINE. BELOW IS SECOND REQUEST- NOT WORKING
$url = "https://api.idolondemand.com/1/api/sync/ocrdocument/v1";
$post = array(
'apikey' => "MY KEY HERE",
'url' => "http://site.ext/users/$fpl",
'mode' => "document_photo"
);
$ch1 = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch1, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch1, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch1, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);
curl_setopt($ch1, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$ocr = curl_exec($ch1);
$jsonocr = json_decode($ocr, true);
$textblock = $jsonocr['text'][0];
echo '<div class="success">Please give a missed call to ' . $textblock['text'] . ' from your registered phone number to activate account. </div>';
curl_close($ch1);
}
else { // If it did not run OK.
echo '<div class="errormsgbox">You could not be registered due to a system error. We apologize for any inconvenience.</div>';
}
}
else { // The phone number is not available.
echo '<div class="errormsgbox" >That phone number has already been registered. </div>';
}
}
else { //If the "error" array contains error msg , display them
echo '<div class="errormsgbox"> <ol>';
foreach($error as $key => $values) {
echo ' <li>' . $values . '</li>';
}
echo '</ol></div>';
}
mysqli_close($dbc); //Close the DB Connection
} // End of the main Submit conditional.
?>
I can make request to second curl request manually from my browser and it works but it isn't working here. What's wrong?

Answer 1

I think you get this error when you dump curl_error($ch1) :
Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to api.idolondemand.com
You can add this line when you curl https if you have no sensitive transiting data :
curl_setopt($ch1, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
Here is the code which works for me :
$ch1 = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch1, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch1, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch1, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);
curl_setopt($ch1, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch1, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch1, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 1);
$ocr = curl_exec($ch1);
var_dump($ocr);
var_dump(curl_error($ch1));
When I do this, I get :
string(97) "{ "message": "Unknown API key", "detail": { "error": 2002, "key": "MY KEY HERE" } }" string(0) ""

Answer 2

I have set VERIFYPEER to false and VERIFYHOST to 1 and it worked.