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 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);