Load Json data from file into Parse.com backend via Rest API - php

Question

Evening folks,
I am attempting to load data from a .json file into parse.com backend. I can get the rest api to load manually added json as per the example provided from Parse.com from the terminal on my Mac:
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: removed" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: removed" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"score":1337,"playerName":"Sean Plott","cheatMode":false}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/Test
This works fine.
How can I read a saved .Json file with only these three parameters(Json is validated fine) and send the data to my Parse backend?
"score":1337,"playerName":"Sean Plott","cheatMode":false
I believe I have the option to use PHP/Jquery etc. however I have not used any of these languages extensively and a quick code example would be very much appreciated.
Thanks,
Gerard

Answer 1

Here is pure PHP solution:
$url = 'https://api.parse.com/1/classes/Test';
$fields_string = file_get_contents('file.json');
//open connection
$ch = curl_init();
//set the url, POST data
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields_string);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
//execute post
$result = curl_exec($ch);
//close connection
curl_close($ch);
/* End of first request */