I'm very new to working with web services, and so I'm finding this pretty confusing.
If I have a URL I'm trying to post some JSON data to, I understand how to do this using the CURL PHP method.
What I'm wondering is, if I do this, and the URL has some kind of server response.. how do I get that response in my php and use it to take different actions within the PHP accordingly?
Thanks!
-Elliot
You'll have to set the CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER option to true.
$ch = curl_init($url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $params); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); $result = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); The response to your request will be available in the $result variable.
If you are referring to different actions for different HTTP response codes, then you can do something like:
$response = curl_exec($req); $responseInfo = curl_getinfo($req); $httpResponseCode = $responseInfo['http_code']; The default behavior of Curl is to just dump the data you get back out to the browser. In order to instead capture it to a variable, you need:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); $txResult = curl_exec($ch); Also you can use parse_string on this $txResult to properly format it.
