Question

I’m attempting to use the Github v3 API and posting JSON to update a profile (or some other call) and get the following response from Github;

Array
(
    [message] => Body should be a JSON Hash 
)

I have gone over the relevant page on the API Docs: http://developer.github.com/v3/users/

And this page: http://developer.github.com/v3/#http-verbs which covers POST/PATCH

Here is the code that I’m using

$data = array("bio" => "This is my bio" );
$data_string = json_encode($data); 

function curl($url) {
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST"); 
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_string);  

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1); 
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "USERNAME:PASSWORD");
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);   
    $content = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    return $content;
}

$result = json_decode(curl('https://api.github.com/user'),true);

I have also tried CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST as 'POST' and 'PATCH' but got the same error response for both.

Can anyone point me in the right direction for posting data to the API?

Answer 1

You have to either global $data_string or pass the $data_string variable to curl() for reusability.

Example:

function curl($curl, $data)
{
    $data_string = json_encode($data);
    // your code here
}