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);