Question

How to hit a url with the Content-Type header set to application/json.

My code returns “request not successfull” (the else side of the condition). I’m a beginner so please help me understand why this is not working.

Code:

$data_string=json data here;    
    $ch = curl_init('www.here is url');                                                                      
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");                                                                    
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_string);                                                                  
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json'));                                                                                                                                  
    if(curl_exec($ch))
        echo "request successfull";
    else
        echo "request not successfull"

    curl_close($ch);

Answer 1

 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);

Is all you need. Custom request is for the lesser-used HTTP verbs. To find out why the curl request failed, use

echo curl_error($ch);