XBMC api get request in php with curl - php

Question

I'm trying to do a GET request to the XBMC api in PHP, but i cant get it to work. I already have a valid url, thats working when i simulate a GET request with a REST client.
http://localhost:8085/jsonrpc?request={"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "Input.ExecuteAction", "params": {"action":"left"}}
I get a parse error from xbmc when i simulate a POST:
{
"error": {
"code": -32700,
"message": "Parse error."
},
"id": null,
"jsonrpc": "2.0"
}
This is the code i currently have:
<?php
$jsonString = "{\"jsonrpc\": \"2.0\", \"id\": 1, \"method\": \"Input.ExecuteAction\", \"params\": {\"action\":\"left\"}}";
$url = "http://localhost:8085/jsonrpc?request=".$jsonString;
get($url);
function get($url){
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT , 7);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
print $result;
curl_close($ch);
}
But this wont do the job, just like when i simulate a POST request a parse error is returned.
So my thoughts are that i'm doing a POST request, am i?
If no, what would be the problem then?

Answer 1

I just ran into the same problem.
You need to encode the url you are using for XBMC (Kodi nowadays). So in your case:
$jsonString
should be replaced by
urlencode($jsonString)