I cannot figure out why this function is not POSTing, any ideas? Thanks! I am trying to send JSON data to a server, and I am getting no error or feedback, the var_dump($response) just gives me 'null'.
function postToDatabase($data, $thingName){
$content = json_encode($data);
$curl = curl_init('http://someurl.com/thing'. $thingName .'/otherthing');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,
array("Content-type: application/json"));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $content);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); //curl error SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK
$result = curl_exec($curl);
$response = json_decode($result);
var_dump($response);
curl_close($curl);
}
/* post to url */
postToDatabase($someData, $thingName);
my JSON $content:
{
"email": null,
"stripeToken": "aidfat9s8d7ftas7df9asjd7fy0aksd",
"stripeShippingName": "A Test User",
"stripeShippingAddressLine1": "1we2e12",
"stripeShippingAddressZip": "62650",
"stripeShippingAddressState": "IL",
"stripeShippingAddressCity": "Jacksonville",
"stripeShippingAddressCountry": "United States",
"products": [
{
"productId": "897349864",
"sizeId": "4",
"colorId": "6",
"units": 1
}
]
}
your issue could be because of error happening in curl or while decoding json string using json_decode() I would recommend you to consider implementing more error handling, using related error functions, something like:
$result = curl_exec($curl);
if($result == false){
var_dump(curl_error($curl)); // https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-error.php
}
$response = json_decode($result);
if ($resonse == null){
var_dump(json_last_error());
}
var_dump($response);
curl_close($curl);
Here is the CURL error's list : https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-errno.php
<?php
$error_codes=array(
[1] => 'CURLE_UNSUPPORTED_PROTOCOL',
[2] => 'CURLE_FAILED_INIT',
[3] => 'CURLE_URL_MALFORMAT',
[4] => 'CURLE_URL_MALFORMAT_USER',
[5] => 'CURLE_COULDNT_RESOLVE_PROXY',
[6] => 'CURLE_COULDNT_RESOLVE_HOST',
[7] => 'CURLE_COULDNT_CONNECT',
[8] => 'CURLE_FTP_WEIRD_SERVER_REPLY',
[9] => 'CURLE_REMOTE_ACCESS_DENIED',
[11] => 'CURLE_FTP_WEIRD_PASS_REPLY',
[13] => 'CURLE_FTP_WEIRD_PASV_REPLY',
[14]=>'CURLE_FTP_WEIRD_227_FORMAT',
[15] => 'CURLE_FTP_CANT_GET_HOST',
[17] => 'CURLE_FTP_COULDNT_SET_TYPE',
[18] => 'CURLE_PARTIAL_FILE',
[19] => 'CURLE_FTP_COULDNT_RETR_FILE',
[21] => 'CURLE_QUOTE_ERROR',
[22] => 'CURLE_HTTP_RETURNED_ERROR',
[23] => 'CURLE_WRITE_ERROR',
[25] => 'CURLE_UPLOAD_FAILED',
[26] => 'CURLE_READ_ERROR',
[27] => 'CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY',
[28] => 'CURLE_OPERATION_TIMEDOUT',
[30] => 'CURLE_FTP_PORT_FAILED',
[31] => 'CURLE_FTP_COULDNT_USE_REST',
[33] => 'CURLE_RANGE_ERROR',
[34] => 'CURLE_HTTP_POST_ERROR',
[35] => 'CURLE_SSL_CONNECT_ERROR',
[36] => 'CURLE_BAD_DOWNLOAD_RESUME',
[37] => 'CURLE_FILE_COULDNT_READ_FILE',
[38] => 'CURLE_LDAP_CANNOT_BIND',
[39] => 'CURLE_LDAP_SEARCH_FAILED',
[41] => 'CURLE_FUNCTION_NOT_FOUND',
[42] => 'CURLE_ABORTED_BY_CALLBACK',
[43] => 'CURLE_BAD_FUNCTION_ARGUMENT',
[45] => 'CURLE_INTERFACE_FAILED',
[47] => 'CURLE_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS',
[48] => 'CURLE_UNKNOWN_TELNET_OPTION',
[49] => 'CURLE_TELNET_OPTION_SYNTAX',
[51] => 'CURLE_PEER_FAILED_VERIFICATION',
[52] => 'CURLE_GOT_NOTHING',
[53] => 'CURLE_SSL_ENGINE_NOTFOUND',
[54] => 'CURLE_SSL_ENGINE_SETFAILED',
[55] => 'CURLE_SEND_ERROR',
[56] => 'CURLE_RECV_ERROR',
[58] => 'CURLE_SSL_CERTPROBLEM',
[59] => 'CURLE_SSL_CIPHER',
[60] => 'CURLE_SSL_CACERT',
[61] => 'CURLE_BAD_CONTENT_ENCODING',
[62] => 'CURLE_LDAP_INVALID_URL',
[63] => 'CURLE_FILESIZE_EXCEEDED',
[64] => 'CURLE_USE_SSL_FAILED',
[65] => 'CURLE_SEND_FAIL_REWIND',
[66] => 'CURLE_SSL_ENGINE_INITFAILED',
[67] => 'CURLE_LOGIN_DENIED',
[68] => 'CURLE_TFTP_NOTFOUND',
[69] => 'CURLE_TFTP_PERM',
[70] => 'CURLE_REMOTE_DISK_FULL',
[71] => 'CURLE_TFTP_ILLEGAL',
[72] => 'CURLE_TFTP_UNKNOWNID',
[73] => 'CURLE_REMOTE_FILE_EXISTS',
[74] => 'CURLE_TFTP_NOSUCHUSER',
[75] => 'CURLE_CONV_FAILED',
[76] => 'CURLE_CONV_REQD',
[77] => 'CURLE_SSL_CACERT_BADFILE',
[78] => 'CURLE_REMOTE_FILE_NOT_FOUND',
[79] => 'CURLE_SSH',
[80] => 'CURLE_SSL_SHUTDOWN_FAILED',
[81] => 'CURLE_AGAIN',
[82] => 'CURLE_SSL_CRL_BADFILE',
[83] => 'CURLE_SSL_ISSUER_ERROR',
[84] => 'CURLE_FTP_PRET_FAILED',
[84] => 'CURLE_FTP_PRET_FAILED',
[85] => 'CURLE_RTSP_CSEQ_ERROR',
[86] => 'CURLE_RTSP_SESSION_ERROR',
[87] => 'CURLE_FTP_BAD_FILE_LIST',
[88] => 'CURLE_CHUNK_FAILED');
?>