How to Simulate JSon POST Request Using PHP and CURL

Basically, im trying to do a PHP POST request using JSon string as its format and able to consume JSon array string as responses. Dont forget to activate CURL in your php.ini file.

<?php

//set POST variables address and json string
$url = 'http://localhost:81/dudu.php';
$fields = array(
		'userName'=>'yyy@xxx.com',
		'password'=>'yyyy',
		'emailProvider'=>'xxxx'
                );
//{"userName":"yyy@xxx.com","password":"yyyy","emailProvider":"xxxx"}

//url-ify the data for the JSON POST
$fields_string = json_encode($fields);

//open connection
$ch = curl_init();

//set the url, number of POST vars, POST data
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST,count($fields));
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$fields_string);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER , 1);

//execute post
$jsonResult = curl_exec($ch);

//close connection
curl_close($ch);

// [{"name":0,"email":"yyy@xxx.com"},{"name":1,"email":"yyy@xxx.com"},
// {"name":2,"email":"yyy@xxx.com"},{"name":3,"email":"yyy@xxx.com"}]
$results = json_decode($jsonResult, true);
foreach ( $results as $result )
{
    echo "name : {$result['name']} and email {$result['email']} <br />";
}

?>

This is what my browser will look like after im testing my JSon POST

Have fun with CURL 🙂