Differences in using PHP Curl vs command line curl - php

Question

I am integrating the Badgeville REST API with my PHP 5.3, curl 7.22 application.
The API documentation for BV all uses command line curl calls for their examples. When I run these examples they work fine.
When I attempt to do the same thing with the PHP Curl class I always get a 500 error from the BV server.
I have tried to do the synonomous functionality with the Advanced Rest Client extension in Chrome.
PHP Curl Example:
$ch = curl_init('http://sandbox.v2.badgeville.com/api/berlin/[private_api_key]/users.json');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 3);
if($this->getRequestType() == 'POST')
{
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,
array(
'user[name]' => 'Generic+Username',
'user[email]' => 'johndoe%40domainname.com'
);
);
}
$response = curl_exec($ch);
Rest Client Example:
URL:
http://sandbox.v2.badgeville.com/api/berlin/[private_api_key]/users.json
POST
No Headers Payload:
user[name]=Generic+Username&user[email]=johndoe%40domainname.com
I have manually created the command line curl call and ran that with shell_exec(), but I would REALLY prefer not having to do that.
In my research I found a Drupal module and all the API calls are done through fsockopen() calls.
Is there some way to do successfully make Badgeville calls using the PHP Curl class?

Answer 1

As it turns out Badgeville has a 500 error when a curl request comes in that has headers set.
Error returning code:
$ch = curl_init('http://sandbox.v2.badgeville.com/api/berlin/[private_api_key]/users.json');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 3);
if($this->getRequestType() == 'POST')
{
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,
array(
'user[name]' => 'Generic+Username',
'user[email]' => 'johndoe%40domainname.com'
);
);
}
$response = curl_exec($ch);
Properly functioning code:
$ch = curl_init('http://sandbox.v2.badgeville.com/api/berlin/[private_api_key]/users.json');
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 3);
if($this->getRequestType() == 'POST')
{
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,
array(
'user[name]' => 'Generic+Username',
'user[email]' => 'johndoe%40domainname.com'
);
);
}
$response = curl_exec($ch);
SMH