Question

the scope of my project is to pass certain values from a python script to a remote php script.

i’ve a python script that generate an associatve array. For example (already JSON encoded):

{"FRONT": "19.50", "RACK": "17.63", "REAR": "21.06", "ROOM": "15.6"}

I need to pass this associative array to a remote PHP script i followed this tutorial:
http://nonstopblah.wordpress.com/2010/07/13/python-to-php-via-json/

I get 200 for HTTP Response but in the php script the POST variable seems to be empty

Here my code:

bulkData = json.dumps(temp, ensure_ascii = 'False')
# ensure_ascii is false as data is in unicode and not ascii encoding , use this if data is in any other encoding
print bulkData

print '\nHTTP Response'

headers = { "charset":"utf-8",
"Accept": "text/plain"}
conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(report_host)
postData = urllib.urlencode({'results':bulkData})
conn.request("POST", report_path, postData,headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
text = response.read()
print "Response status: ",response.status,"\n",text
conn.close()

this is the PHP script:

if( isset($_POST['results']) )
{
    $data = json_decode($_POST['results']);

    print_r($data);
}
else
{
    echo 'Nothing to listen.';
    print_r($_POST);
}

and this is the output of my python script (with the remote response):

{"FRONT": "20.44", "RACK": "18.88", "REAR": "21.25", "ROOM": "17.7"}

HTTP Response
Response status:  200 
Nothing to listen.Array
(
)

is there a smarter way to do it? What am i missing here?

Thank you in advance for your kind answers.

Answer 1

I’d skip the urlencoded form data. Just send the raw data in the body:

conn.request("POST", report_path, bulkData,headers)

Then you can read the request body in PHP with:

<?
$data = json_decode(file_get_contents('php://input'));
?>

The bulkData string is going to arrive as is in your php script.