POST empty when curling JSON

Question

I\'m using curl to send this:

curl -i -H \"Accept: application/json\" -H \"Content-type: application/json\" -X POST -d \"{firstname:james}\" http://hostname/inde         


        

Answer 1

$_POST is an array that is only populated if you send the POST body in URL encoded format. PHP does not parse JSON by itself automatically and hence does not populate the $_POST array. You need to get the raw POST body and decode the JSON yourself:

$json = file_get_contents('php://input');
$values = json_decode($json, true);

Answer 2

$_POST only works if you are sending encoded form data. You are sending JSON, so PHP cannot parse it into the $_POST array.

You need to read directly from the POST body.

$post = fopen('php://input', r);
$data = json_decode(stream_get_contents($post));
fclose($post);