Creating Leads in SalesForce using REST API in PHP - php

Question

I have been trying to create a lead from SalesForce's REST API for the past several days but I can't for the life of me get it working. I am able to get the access token no problem but from there on as far as creating a lead I am having absolutely no luck at all.
I keep seeing in all of the documentation this:
curl https://na1.salesforce.com/services/data/v20.0/sobjects/Account/ -H "Authorization: Bearer token -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d #newaccount.json"
How would I do this in PHP's curl though? I have tried and tried but had no luck at all.
Here is how I have got the access token:
$ch = curl_init();
// set URL options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://login.salesforce.com/services/oauth2/token?grant_type=password&client_id=".CONSUMER_KEY."&client_secret=".CONSUMER_SECRET."&username=".USERNAME."&password=".USERPASS.SECURITY_TOKEN);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
// grab HTML
$data = curl_exec($ch);
$data = json_decode($data, true);
$code = $data['access_token'];
curl_close($ch);
I have tried doing something like this after this code, however I have had no luck.
$token_url = LOGIN_BASE_URL.'/services/oauth2/token';
$post_fields = array(
'code' => $code,
'grant_type' => 'authorization_code',
'client_id' => CONSUMER_KEY,
'client_secret' => CONSUMER_SECRET,
);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $token_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_fields);
$token_request_body = curl_exec($ch)
I just need to figure out how to create leads in SalesForce, I have no idea where to go from here. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I cannot find decent documentation anywhere that helps me.

Answer 1

create account demo, should get you started:
function create_account($name, $instance_url, $access_token) {
$url = "$instance_url/services/data/v20.0/sobjects/Account/";
$content = json_encode(array("Name" => $name));
$curl = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,
array("Authorization: OAuth $access_token",
"Content-type: application/json"));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $content);
$json_response = curl_exec($curl);
$status = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
if ( $status != 201 ) {
die("Error: call to URL $url failed with status $status, response $json_response, curl_error " . curl_error($curl) . ", curl_errno " . curl_errno($curl));
}
echo "HTTP status $status creating account<br/><br/>";
curl_close($curl);
$response = json_decode($json_response, true);
$id = $response["id"];
echo "New record id $id<br/><br/>";
return $id;
}