Question

I have the following code:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $request);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $this->credentials);

if ($action == 'post') {
     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array ("Content-Type: application/json"));
     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
     if(isset($params)){
         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($params));
     }
}

I am basically trying to mimic the following:

curl --user $APPLICATION_ID:$MASTER_KEY \
  -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"score": 1337, "playerName": "Sean Plott", "cheatMode": false }' \
  https://api.somewebsite.com/1/classes/GameScore

As of now $params is an array, not sure if this is correct or not.. should I json_encode the $params? How do I get rid of the 411 error?

Answer 1

http_build_query is only for sending application/x-www-form-urlencoded data, which yours isn’t. Your POST data is probably messed up so you’re not sending a Content-Length header with your request. Assuming you have your params as an array of those key-value pairs, you can use the following:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($params));