CODEWITHSUNDEEP
phpjsonlaravelcurllaravel-4
iori
iori

Reputation: 3506

How to determine if posting JSON with PHP cURL is succeed?

Goal

I want to know if I post my JSON successfully to this url http://localhost/api_v2/url/post?key=***, so I can retrieve them back eventually, but I am not sure, how I would test them.

I tried

Normally, we can just print_r($result ) to see what is in the variable, but when I did that nothing showed up.

When I do echo $result also nothing showed up.

So far, nothing help, so I decide to move up an next variable $ch when I do echo $ch; I got this Resource id #188. Now, I am stuck.

Can someone help me clarify on this ?

Here is my code

public function post(){

    $ch = curl_init("http://localhost/api_v2/url?key=***");

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

    $file_name = 'inventory.csv';
    $file_path = 'C:\\QuickBooks\\'.$file_name;
    $csv= file_get_contents($file_path);
    $utf8_csv = utf8_encode($csv);
    $array = array_map("str_getcsv", explode("\n", $utf8_csv));
    $json = json_encode($array, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(                                                                          
        'Content-Type: application/json',                                                                                
        'Content-Length: ' . strlen($json))                                                                       
    );  

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array('data' => $json));

    $result = curl_exec($ch);

    $status = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
    if($status == 200){
        echo "Post Successfully!";
    }
}

( Updated )

Here is my routes 

// API Version 2 
Route::group(array('prefix' => 'api_v2'), function(){
    Route::post('url/post', array('before' => 'api_v2', 'uses' => 'UrlController@post'));
    Route::get('url/reveive', array('before' => 'api_v2', 'uses' => 'UrlController@receive'));
    Route::get('url/store', array('before' => 'api_v2', 'uses' => 'UrlController@store'));
});

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1592

Answers (1)

lukasgeiter
lukasgeiter

Reputation: 153030

I suggest you use the returned HTTP status code to determine if the request was successful:

$status = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
if($status == 200){
   echo "Post Successfully!";
}

I also think something isn't working quite right since the dd($result) shows a 404 page. Probably there's no route matching POST http://localhost/api_v2/url?key=***

Edit

I'm not the curl expert but as far as I know you should pass that data as an array:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array('data' => $json));

On the other end you can retrieve it like that:

$data = json_decode(Input::get('data'));

Edit 2

To use the CSRF filter on a single route:

Route::post('url/post', array('before' => 'csrf|api_v2', 'uses' => 'UrlController@post'));

Or alternatively using CSRF for a certain HTTP verb (and prefix if you want)

Route::when('*', 'csrf', array('post'));

Upvotes: 2

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