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Hybrid

Reputation: 7049

Building Dynamic JSON Dict with PHP and cURL

I was wondering how I could merge the variables at the top of my PHP file with the dict in my cURL POST method.

$first_name = $_POST['first_name'];
$last_name = $_POST['last_name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$comment = $_POST['comment'];

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
      CURLOPT_URL => "CUSTOM_URL",
      CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
      CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
      CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
      CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
      CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
      CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
      CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "{\"email_address\": \"[email protected]\", \"status\": \"subscribed\", \"merge_fields\": {\"FNAME\": \"Bob\", \"LNAME\": \"Dylan\"}}",
      CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
        "authorization: Basic UN:PW",
        "cache-control: no-cache",
        "content-type: application/json",
      ),
    ));

So essentially, how do I put First Name, Last Name, Email, etc into "{\"email_address\": \"[email protected]\", \"status\": \"subscribed\", \"merge_fields\": {\"FNAME\": \"Bob\", \"LNAME\": \"Dylan\"}}" (to replace [email protected], Bob, etc.)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 233

Answers (3)

MahdiY
MahdiY

Reputation: 1306

I suggest you that use http_build_query function. try this:

$postfields = [
    'email_address' => $_POST['email'],
    'status' => 'subscribed',
    'merge_fields' => [
        'FNAME' => $_POST['first_name'],
        'LNAME' => $_POST['last_name']
    ]
]

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
    CURLOPT_URL => "CUSTOM_URL",
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
    CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
    CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
    CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => http_build_query( $postfields ),
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
        "authorization: Basic UN:PW",
        "cache-control: no-cache",
        "content-type: plain/text",
    ],
));

Or with JSON:

$postfields = [
    'email_address' => $_POST['email'],
    'status' => 'subscribed',
    'merge_fields' => [
        'FNAME' => $_POST['first_name'],
        'LNAME' => $_POST['last_name']
    ]
]

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
    CURLOPT_URL => "CUSTOM_URL",
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
    CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
    CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
    CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode( $postfields ),
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
        "authorization: Basic UN:PW",
        "cache-control: no-cache",
        "content-type: application/json",
    ],
));

Upvotes: 0

fedeisas
fedeisas

Reputation: 2023

Use json_encode.

$data = [
    'email_address' => $_POST['email'],
    'status' => 'subscribed',
    'merge_fields' => [
        'FNAME' => $_POST['first_name'],
        'LNAME' => $_POST['last_name'],
    ],
];

...
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode($data),
...

Upvotes: 2

Chip Dean
Chip Dean

Reputation: 4302

I would use json_encode to just create a whole new json string with the variables you need. The alternative would be trying to string replace on the json string.

 $fields = json_encode([
  'FNAME' => $_POST['first_name'], 
  'LNAME' => $_POST['last_name'], 
  'email_address' => $_POST['email'], 
  'status' => 'subscribed'
]);

Then in your output:

CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $fields

Upvotes: 2

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