How to convert raw request into php post curl request

Question

I am trying to use outreach API for my PHP website. On outreach, this is request they mentioned:

POST https://api.outreach.io/api/v2/prospects

{ "data": { "attributes": { "firstName": "Test_3", "lastName": "API" }, "type": "prospect" } }

In PHP , i converted this to following code but it gives error "Bad Request". Please help me what i am doing wrong, accessToken in below code is having correct value.

$urlCreateAccount = "https://api.outreach.io/api/v2/prospects";
$attributes = array("firstName"=> "Sally","lastName"=> "Biu");
$paramsCreateAccount = "type=prospect$attributes=".$attributes;
$headr[] = "Authorization:bearer $accessToken";

$curl = curl_init($urlCreateAccount);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,$headr);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $paramsCreateAccount);

$jsonResponseCreateAccount = curl_exec($curl);

$status = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($curl);

You can try using POSTMAN to convert into PHP. https://stackoverflow.com/a/49433083/2609521 — MalcolmInTheCenter, Apr 10 '20 at 05:01

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 10 '20 at 05:17

I can really say what is wrong in code. But try once this code. I have taken sample json data outreach api document

$jsonData = "{
  "data": {
    "type": "prospect",
    "attributes": {
      "emails": ["sally.smith@acme.example.com"],
      "firstName": "Sally",
      "title": "CEO"
    },
    "relationships": {
      "account": {
        "data": {
          "type": "account",
          "id": 1
        }
      }
    }
  }
}";

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.outreach.io/api/v2/prospects",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS =>$jsonData,
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    "Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json",
    "Authorization: Bearer <Access Token>",
    "Content-Type: text/plain"
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);

curl_close($curl);
echo $response;

Hope you will get your result. Also you can use postman to test the api first and from there you can take out the code fro the desired language

Thanks for your help. Below part is giving error, can you please point out what is wrong with your jsonData part: $jsonData = "{ "data": { "type": "prospect", "attributes": { "emails": ["sally.smith@acme.example.com"], "firstName": "Sally", "title": "CEO" }, "relationships": { "account": { "data": { "type": "account", "id": 1 } } } } }"; — farazch, Apr 10 '20 at 05:49
The code for `$jsonData` has nested double quotes, try changing the outermost quotes to single quotes `$jsonData = '{` and `}';`. Ideally you should build the data as an array and then JSON encode the result, but try this first. — Nigel Ren, Apr 10 '20 at 06:44
try out this one $jsonData = '{ "data": { "type": "prospect", "attributes": { "emails": ["sally.smith@acme.example.com"], "firstName": "Sally", "title": "CEO" }, "relationships": { "account": { "data": { "type": "account", "id": 1 } } } } }'; — Divyanshu Kumar, Apr 10 '20 at 16:20

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 10 '20 at 18:09

Its expecting JSON, so you need to POST JSON. Something like this...

$data = json_encode($data);
$ch = curl_init($host);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Authorization: Bearer ' . $access,'Content-Type: application/json','Content-Length: ' . strlen($data)));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
$response = curl_exec($ch);

How to convert raw request into php post curl request

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