I am having trouble sending JSON data from the command line with curl to a php script and properly receiving it on the server-side.
Here is what I have attempted so far:
Running the following command in the command line:
curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -i -d '{"token":"xyz"}' http://localhost/api/users.php
And here's the users.php file:
// Receive the RAW post data.
$content = file_get_contents("php://input");
echo $content;
// Try to decode JSON
$decoded = json_decode($content);
if ($decoded) {
echo "success";
echo $decoded['token'];
} else {
echo "failed";
}
The result that I get is:
'{token:xyz}'
failed
I have also tried escaping the double quotes ("") in the curl command like this:
curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -i -d '{\"token\":\"xyz\"}' http://localhost/api/users.php
However, I still receive almost the same result:
'{"token":"xyz"}'
failed
My issue seems to be that the php script fails to correctly convert the received JSON data.
What could be causing this problem?
EDIT (Solved):
Try running the curl command with double quotes and escape quotes in between:
curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -i -d "{\"token\":\"xyz\"}" http://localhost/api/users.php