HTTP POST a JSON array using PHP/CURL - php

Question

I'm trying to send a JSON array to an API via HTTP POST, get a response and print it.
I tried using cURL to do so, but it doesn't seem to work.
I simply get zero response, a blank page.
My request:
<?php
$data = array(
"login" => "myLogin",
"password" => "myPassword",
"id" => "12345",
"tag" => "test"
);
$json_data = json_encode($data);
$ch = curl_init('URL/api/mylogin');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $json_data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
'Content-Type: application/json',
'Content-Length: ' . strlen($json_data))
);
$output = curl_exec($ch);
$result = json_decode($output);
echo $result;
?>
The response I should be getting:
{"status": 200, "message": "OK", "login_key": "abcdefh532h235yh"}
any idea why I'm not getting any response?
(this works ok when I manually test it using a test REST client)

Answer 1

Try this #rani now you can get response.
$url = 'URL/api/mylogin';
$ch = curl_init($url);
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); // RETURN THE CONTENTS OF THE CALL
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json'));
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'POST');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, 'myLogin'.':'.'myPassword');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $json_data);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $response;
or pass key as a password in CURLOPT_USERPWD.