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Asked by ITNC
at 2024-07-15 11:46:53
ModifyPoint:500 Replies:19 POST_ID:828984USER_ID:11885
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PHP Scripting Language;;
Can someone give me an example on how to take a multi-dimensional array ($params) and post that array to a URL. I then need to be able to use 'extract' on the array to create variables on the remote end.
Expert: Ray Paseur replied at 2024-07-16 05:49:35
Great! Thanks for using E-E, it can be a great learning community. All the best, ~Ray
Author: ITNC replied at 2024-07-16 05:36:46
Ray,
I was able to get the array I needed using your script above. Thank you all for your expertise and quick responses. I have much to learn but this helps tremendously.
I was able to get the array I needed using your script above. Thank you all for your expertise and quick responses. I have much to learn but this helps tremendously.
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Expert: Ray Paseur replied at 2024-07-15 16:37:33
500 points EXCELLENT
Put the URL of your web service at line 159 and try this for starters. It should at least get you a script that will parse and a cURL call that will show you the cURL errors, if any.
<?php // demo/temp_itnc_local.phperror_reporting(E_ALL);echo '<pre>';/** * SEE http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Languages/Scripting/PHP/Q_28476467.html#a40197729Array( [accountid] => 5 [serviceid] => 5 [userid] => 1 [domain] => [username] => test [password] => test [packageid] => 9 [pid] => 9 [serverid] => 4 [type] => other [producttype] => other [moduletype] => test [configoption1] => TEST123 [configoption2] => [configoption3] => [configoption4] => [configoption5] => [configoption6] => [configoption7] => [configoption8] => [configoption9] => [configoption10] => [configoption11] => [configoption12] => [configoption13] => [configoption14] => [configoption15] => [configoption16] => [configoption17] => [configoption18] => [configoption19] => [configoption20] => [configoption21] => [configoption22] => [configoption23] => [configoption24] => [customfields] => Array ( [*Note] => ) [configoptions] => Array ( [MSRP] => MSRP [Wan Failover] => OFF [Passthru] => OFF [DHCP] => ON [DNS] => ON [NAT] => ON ) [clientsdetails] => Array ( [userid] => 1 [id] => 1 [firstname] => test [lastname] => test [fullname] => test test [companyname] => test [email] => test@test.com [address1] => 23605 test Rd [address2] => 23605 test Rd [city] => test [fullstate] => test [state] => te [postcode] => 11111 [countrycode] => US [country] => US [statecode] => te [countryname] => United States [phonecc] => 1 [phonenumber] => 111-111-1111 [phonenumberformatted] => +1.1111111111 [billingcid] => 0 [notes] => [password] => test [twofaenabled] => [currency] => 1 [defaultgateway] => [cctype] => [cclastfour] => [securityqid] => 0 [securityqans] => [groupid] => 0 [status] => Active [credit] => 924.00 [taxexempt] => [latefeeoveride] => [overideduenotices] => [separateinvoices] => [disableautocc] => [emailoptout] => 0 [overrideautoclose] => 0 [language] => ) [server] => 1 [serverip] => [serverhostname] => test.test.net [serverusername] => [serverpassword] => [serveraccesshash] => testhash [serversecure] => [action] => create)*/// SIMULATE SOME PARTS OF THE ARRAY$arr = Array( 'accountid' => '5', 'serviceid' => '5', 'userid' => '1', 'domain' => '', 'username' => 'test', 'customfields' => Array ( '*Note' => '' ), 'configoptions' => Array ( 'MSRP' => 'MSRP' , 'Wan Failover' => 'OFF' ), 'clientsdetails' => Array ( 'userid' => '1' , 'id' => '1' , 'firstname' => 'test' , 'groupid' => '0' , 'status' => 'Active' , 'credit' => '924.00' , 'taxexempt' => '' , 'overrideautoclose' => '0' , 'language' => '' ), 'server' => '1', 'serverip' => '', 'serverhostname' => 'test.test.net', 'action' => 'create');// SHOW THE ARRAY WE ARE USINGvar_dump($arr);// MAKE A JSON STRING$jso = json_encode($arr);// MAKE A REQUEST VARIABLE THAT INCORPORATES THE JSON STRING$req = array('data' => $jso);// IDENTIFY THE URL OF THE WEB SERVICE$url = '';// CALL THE REMOTE SERVER AND SHOW THE RESPONSE$response = my_curl($url, $req);var_dump($response);// A FUNCTION TO RUN A CURL-GET CLIENT CALL TO A FOREIGN SERVERfunction my_curl( $url, $get_array=array(), $timeout=3, $error_report=TRUE){ // PREPARE THE ARGUMENT STRING IF NEEDED $get_string = NULL; foreach ($get_array as $key => $val) { $get_string = $get_string . $key . '=' . urlencode($val) . '&' ; } $get_string = rtrim($get_string, '&'); if (!empty($get_string)) $url .= '?' . $get_string; // START CURL $curl = curl_init(); // HEADERS AND OPTIONS APPEAR TO BE A FIREFOX BROWSER REFERRED BY GOOGLE $header[] = "Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5"; $header[] = "Cache-Control: max-age=0"; $header[] = "Connection: keep-alive"; $header[] = "Keep-Alive: 300"; $header[] = "Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7"; $header[] = "Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5"; $header[] = "Pragma: "; // BROWSERS USUALLY LEAVE THIS BLANK // SET THE CURL OPTIONS - SEE http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url ); curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0' ); curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header ); curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_REFERER, 'http://www.google.com' ); curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, 'gzip,deflate' ); curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, TRUE ); curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE ); curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE ); curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $timeout ); curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, TRUE ); // THIS SEEMS TO LET IT WORK WITH HTTPS SITES curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE ); // RUN THE CURL REQUEST AND GET THE RESULTS $htm = curl_exec($curl); // ON FAILURE HANDLE CREATION OF ERROR MESSAGE if ($htm === FALSE) { if ($error_report) { $err = curl_errno($curl); $inf = curl_getinfo($curl); echo "CURL FAIL: $url TIMEOUT=$timeout, CURL_ERRNO=$err"; var_dump($inf); } curl_close($curl); return FALSE; } // ON SUCCESS RETURN XML / HTML STRING curl_close($curl); return $htm;} 1:2:3:4:5:6:7:8:9:10:11:12:13:14:15:16:17:18:19:20:21:22:23:24:25:26:27:28:29:30:31:32:33:34:35:36:37:38:39:40:41:42:43:44:45:46:47:48:49:50:51:52:53:54:55:56:57:58:59:60:61:62:63:64:65:66:67:68:69:70:71:72:73:74:75:76:77:78:79:80:81:82:83:84:85:86:87:88:89:90:91:92:93:94:95:96:97:98:99:100:101:102:103:104:105:106:107:108:109:110:111:112:113:114:115:116:117:118:119:120:121:122:123:124:125:126:127:128:129:130:131:132:133:134:135:136:137:138:139:140:141:142:143:144:145:146:147:148:149:150:151:152:153:154:155:156:157:158:159:160:161:162:163:164:165:166:167:168:169:170:171:172:173:174:175:176:177:178:179:180:181:182:183:184:185:186:187:188:189:190:191:192:193:194:195:196:197:198:199:200:201:202:203:204:205:206:207:208:209:210:211:212:213:214:215:216:217:218:219:220:221:222:223:224:225:226:227:228:229:230:231:232:233:234:235:236:
Expert: M. Jayme Nagy replied at 2024-07-15 13:17:56
http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php ->cURL options
Expert: M. Jayme Nagy replied at 2024-07-15 13:11:14
what are you trying to get?
Expert: Ray Paseur replied at 2024-07-15 13:10:45
All of the PHP functions are documented on the PHP.net web site. If you're not sure why a function is doing something (like returning "1") you can look it up by going to http://php.net and typing the function name into the search box at the upper right. Example here: http://php.net/manual/en/function.print-r.php
Author: ITNC replied at 2024-07-15 13:10:15
That also prints a 1
Expert: M. Jayme Nagy replied at 2024-07-15 13:07:30
try
echo '<pre>';
print_r($_REQUEST);
echo '</pre>';
echo '<pre>';
print_r($_REQUEST);
echo '</pre>';
Author: ITNC replied at 2024-07-15 13:02:33
So right now on the remote end I have the following:
$vars = print_r($_POST);
echo "POST: " . $vars . "";
And the result I get is:
POST: 1
Any reason why it is returning a 1?
$vars = print_r($_POST);
echo "POST: " . $vars . "";
And the result I get is:
POST: 1
Any reason why it is returning a 1?
Expert: M. Jayme Nagy replied at 2024-07-15 12:48:16
echo '<pre>';
print_r($data);
echo'</pre>';
will return the result (changes for POST DELETE or GET) from the receiving server. the receiving server should know how to interpret the data. Its difficult to guide you without adequate information and @ray is one of the forums best
print_r($data);
echo'</pre>';
will return the result (changes for POST DELETE or GET) from the receiving server. the receiving server should know how to interpret the data. Its difficult to guide you without adequate information and @ray is one of the forums best
Expert: Ray Paseur replied at 2024-07-15 12:40:17
Your choice of GET or POST will depend on whether the request can change the state of the server. If the request is idempotent, you can use GET. If the request is not idempotent you must use POST. If you're not sure what idempotent means, use POST (but look it up, because it's an important concept in computer science).
It's not clear to me what the data elements in the $_GET or $_POST array will look like. On the target server, you will want to use a combination of output buffering and var_dump() to capture the request data. Then you can use error_log or similar to put the request data into a place where it will be visible. You might email it to yourself. The reason you have to jump through some extra hoops is because the cURL request is made "server-to-server" and there is no browser output along the way.
The lack of browser output means that it's somewhat difficult to debug communication errors. Only the sending server (which is acting as a client) will be able to talk to you about any problems. You might want to be familiar with curl errors and you might want to use a script that will visualize these in case any of them occur.
http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html
It's not clear to me what the data elements in the $_GET or $_POST array will look like. On the target server, you will want to use a combination of output buffering and var_dump() to capture the request data. Then you can use error_log or similar to put the request data into a place where it will be visible. You might email it to yourself. The reason you have to jump through some extra hoops is because the cURL request is made "server-to-server" and there is no browser output along the way.
The lack of browser output means that it's somewhat difficult to debug communication errors. Only the sending server (which is acting as a client) will be able to talk to you about any problems. You might want to be familiar with curl errors and you might want to use a script that will visualize these in case any of them occur.
http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html
Author: ITNC replied at 2024-07-15 12:25:22
M. Jayme Nagy,
Should I be able to grab the posted data on the remote end using $_POST['data'] ?
Should I be able to grab the posted data on the remote end using $_POST['data'] ?
Expert: duncanb7 replied at 2024-07-15 12:11:09
It is reference for array, json_encode, foreach ,$_SERVER manual from php.net
http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php
http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-encode.php
http://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.foreach.php
http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.server.php
Duncan
http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php
http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-encode.php
http://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.foreach.php
http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.server.php
Duncan
Author: ITNC replied at 2024-07-15 12:09:35
I will try that and get back with you
Expert: M. Jayme Nagy replied at 2024-07-15 12:07:58
Hi,
can you not json_econde the array and then use it in my function above?
ex:
can you not json_econde the array and then use it in my function above?
ex:
$json=json_encode($params);$url='www.somewhere.com';$data=CURL($url, $json, 'POST')echo '<pre>';print_r($data);echo'</pre>'; 1:2:3:4:5:6:7:
Author: ITNC replied at 2024-07-15 12:00:45
Here is an example of the $params array:
Array( [accountid] => 5 [serviceid] => 5 [userid] => 1 [domain] => [username] => test [password] => test [packageid] => 9 [pid] => 9 [serverid] => 4 [type] => other [producttype] => other [moduletype] => test [configoption1] => TEST123 [configoption2] => [configoption3] => [configoption4] => [configoption5] => [configoption6] => [configoption7] => [configoption8] => [configoption9] => [configoption10] => [configoption11] => [configoption12] => [configoption13] => [configoption14] => [configoption15] => [configoption16] => [configoption17] => [configoption18] => [configoption19] => [configoption20] => [configoption21] => [configoption22] => [configoption23] => [configoption24] => [customfields] => Array ( [*Note] => ) [configoptions] => Array ( [MSRP] => MSRP [Wan Failover] => OFF [Passthru] => OFF [DHCP] => ON [DNS] => ON [NAT] => ON ) [clientsdetails] => Array ( [userid] => 1 [id] => 1 [firstname] => test [lastname] => test [fullname] => test test [companyname] => test [email] => test@test.com [address1] => 23605 test Rd [address2] => 23605 test Rd [city] => test [fullstate] => test [state] => te [postcode] => 11111 [countrycode] => US [country] => US [statecode] => te [countryname] => United States [phonecc] => 1 [phonenumber] => 111-111-1111 [phonenumberformatted] => +1.1111111111 [billingcid] => 0 [notes] => [password] => test [twofaenabled] => [currency] => 1 [defaultgateway] => [cctype] => [cclastfour] => [securityqid] => 0 [securityqans] => [groupid] => 0 [status] => Active [credit] => 924.00 [taxexempt] => [latefeeoveride] => [overideduenotices] => [separateinvoices] => [disableautocc] => [emailoptout] => 0 [overrideautoclose] => 0 [language] => ) [server] => 1 [serverip] => [serverhostname] => test.test.net [serverusername] => [serverpassword] => [serveraccesshash] => testhash [serversecure] => [action] => create) 1:2:3:4:5:6:7:8:9:10:11:12:13:14:15:16:17:18:19:20:21:22:23:24:25:26:27:28:29:30:31:32:33:34:35:36:37:38:39:40:41:42:43:44:45:46:47:48:49:50:51:52:53:54:55:56:57:58:59:60:61:62:63:64:65:66:67:68:69:70:71:72:73:74:75:76:77:78:79:80:81:82:83:84:85:86:87:88:89:90:91:92:93:94:95:96:97:98:99:100:101:102:103:104:105:106:107:108:
Expert: duncanb7 replied at 2024-07-15 11:58:38
Take a look this example link for curl post
http://davidwalsh.name/curl-post
And php.net also provide the manual for curl
http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php
Duncan
http://davidwalsh.name/curl-post
And php.net also provide the manual for curl
http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php
Duncan
Expert: M. Jayme Nagy replied at 2024-07-15 11:57:58
Here is a working curl function which you can use to cURL to GET POST or DELETE
function CURL($url, $json, $action){ try{ $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 10 ); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); // switch($action){ case "POST": curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $json); break; case "GET": curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "GET"); break; case "DELETE": curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "DELETE"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $json); default: break; } curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10); $output = curl_exec($ch); //END CURL curl_close($ch); //RETURN DATA return $output; }catch(Excetion $e){ //THE CURL WAS UNSUCCESSFUL echo '<div>Unable to get data!</div>'; //RETURN FALSE return false; } } 1:2:3:4:5:6:7:8:9:10:11:12:13:14:15:16:17:18:19:20:21:22:23:24:25:26:27:28:29:30:31:32:33:34:35:36:37:38:39:40:41:42:43:
Expert: Ray Paseur replied at 2024-07-15 11:55:30
Please post the $params array so we can see exactly what the data looks like. Sending a multidimensional array is a very, very rare occurrence. More likely you will want to take a mainstream approach, such as sending a JSON string.
