Issue with rest services - php

Question

I am facing one issue while i am calling rest service using file_get_contents
its working fine when response is success but its giving blank result in case of failure or error response. while when I am checking it using rest client its giving me correct response for both case whether its success or failure.
can anyone please help? below is the source code which i have written.
<?php
$postdata = array(
'email' => $email,
'password' => $password
);
$opts = array('http' =>
array(
'method' => 'POST',
'header' => $headers = array(
'Accept: application/json',
'Content-Type: application/json'
)
//'content' => $postdata
)
);
$context = stream_context_create($opts);
//echo "<pre>"; print_r($context); exit;
$url = WS_URL . "issavvy-api/account/login?" . http_build_query($postdata);
$result = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
echo "<pre>";
print_r(json_decode($result));
exit;
?>

Answer 1

If you wanna stick with file_get_contents use $http_response_header and parse it
You can use this
function httpStatusCode($headers){
$match = null;
$pattern = "!(?P<version>HTTP/\d+\.\d+) (?P<code>\d+) (?P<status>.*)!";
foreach($headers as $header){
if(preg_match($pattern, $header, $match)){
return $match['code'];
}
}
return null;
}
To check if request was successful run
$success = (200 == httpStatusCode($http_response_header));
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