PHP cURL POST JSON Data Tutorial Example

JSON is the most popular data format for exchanging data between a browser and a server. The JSON data format is mostly used in web services to interchange data through API. When you working with web services and APIs, sending JSON data via POST request is the most required functionality. PHP cURL makes it easy to POST JSON data to URL. In this tutorial, we will show you how to POST JSON data using PHP cURL and get JSON data in PHP.

The following example makes an HTTP POST request and send the JSON data to URL with cURL in PHP.

Specify the URL ($url) where the JSON data to be sent.
Initiate new cURL resource using curl_init().
Setup data in PHP array and encode into a JSON string using json_encode().
Attach JSON data to the POST fields using the CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS option.
Set the Content-Type of request to application/json using the CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER option.
Return the response as a string instead of outputting it using the CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER option.
Finally, the curl_exec() function is used to execute the POST request.

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