Api in PHP - Accept a curl request and process - php

Question

Not sure if anyone can help me out with a question.
I had to write some php for the company I work for that lets us integrate with an API that accepts a JSON body. I used the cUrl method, and the script is working great.
If I wanted to build another php page that would accept the request im sending, how would I go about this?
Say I wanted to allow someone to send this same request to me, and then wanted the info they sent to go into my database, how would turn their request into php strings?
Here is the code im sending.
<?
$json_string = json_encode(array("FirstName" => $name, "MiddleName" => " ", "LastName" => $last));;
// echo $json_string;
// jSON URL which should be requested
$json_url = 'http://www.exampleurl.com';
// jSON String for request
// Initializing curl
$ch = curl_init( $json_url );
// Configuring curl options
$options = array(
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
'Accept: application/json;charset=utf-8',
'Content-Type: application/json;charset=utf-8',
'Expect: 100-continue',
'Connection: Keep-Alive') ,
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $json_string
);
// Setting curl options
curl_setopt_array( $ch, $options );
// Getting results
$result = curl_exec($ch); // Getting jSON result string
echo $result;
$myArray = json_decode($result);
$action = $myArray->Action;
?>

Answer 1

To get the raw data from the POST that you would be receiving you would use $postData = file_get_contents('php://input');
http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.post.php
Then you would json_decode() the contents of that POST back into JSON.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-decode.php

Answer 2

Not really good understood your question. May be you are looking for the way to read raw POST data? In that case open and read from php://stdin stream.
$stdin = fopen('php://stdin', 'r');
By the way read here ( http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php ) how to use CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS. This parameter can either be passed as a urlencoded string like 'para1=val1&para2=val2&...' or as an array with the field name as key and field data as value.