Which is the best and fastest way to send JSON in post request in PHP?

Question

I am android developer and have some knowledge in php. I need to make post request in php. I found two ways to achieve it.

1. Using CURL.

$url = "your url";    
$content = json_encode("your data to be sent");

$curl = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,
        array("Content-type: application/json"));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $content);

$json_response = curl_exec($curl);

$status = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

if ( $status != 201 ) {
    die("Error: call to URL $url failed with status $status, response $json_response, curl_error " . curl_error($curl) . ", curl_errno " . curl_errno($curl));
}


curl_close($curl);

$response = json_decode($json_response, true);

2. Using Simple Post(file_get_contents).

$options = array(
  'http' => array(
    'method'  => 'POST',
    'content' => json_encode( $data ),
    'header'=>  "Content-Type: application/json\r\n" .
                "Accept: application/json\r\n"
    )
);

$context  = stream_context_create( $options );
$result = file_get_contents( $url, false, $context );
$response = json_decode( $result );

But, I just want to know which is better and efficient way to do that and why? Is there any server/browser or any platform related issue any of them? Or is there any other technique to achieve that? Suggestions are welcome.Thanks

Possible duplicate of [PHP cUrl vs file\_get\_contents](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11064980/php-curl-vs-file-get-contents) — Alex Andrei, Nov 07 '15 at 14:57

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 07 '15 at 14:45

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Best way to achieve is always

Using CURL.

as this is fastest & more reliable..

answered Nov 07 '15 at 14:45

Munjal Mayank

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Thanks, Can you please elaborate, How it is fast and reliable? :) – SRB Bans Nov 07 '15 at 14:49
So, basically on some server file_get_contents are disabled & in that case. you'll get an error while execute script (or no response).. – Munjal Mayank Nov 07 '15 at 14:57

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 07 '15 at 14:59

If you are just sending a JSON reply from a PHP script launched by a call from your Android JAVA code then the simplest and probably the fasted is just to echo the JSON string from your PHP script.

i.e.

<?php

    // read the $_POST inputs from Android call

    // Process whatever building an array 
    // or better still an object containing all
    // data and statuses you want to return to the
    // android JAVA code

    echo json_encode($theObjectOrArray);
    exit;

This way it is all part of the same post/responce. If you get CURL involved you are breaking the simple life cycle.

first of all thnx for comment... Actually am using mysql database with local webserver and php on my android device(like wamp server).. i am making a call to my local php script to fetch data from local mysql database and send it to the server side php script and database. — SRB Bans, Nov 09 '15 at 07:07

Which is the best and fastest way to send JSON in post request in PHP?

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