PHP cURL, Help creating an API Call Script

Question

I was wanting some help please to create a snippet of cURL to call an API.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

This is the API Call

POST https://api.passes.com/v1/templates/names/Member%20Card/pass

apparently they need the following sent

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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="values"; filename="values.json"
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "firstName": "John",
    "lastName": "Doe",
}
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="icon"; filename="icon.png"
Content-Type: application/octet-stream

imagedata
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="icon@2x"; filename="[email protected]"
Content-Type: application/octet-stream

imagedata

I am not sure what to place in the cURL at all.

I have tried the following without success.

$url1 = 'https://api.passes.com/v1/templates/names/Test/pass';

$data1 = array("values" => '{"first":"John","last":"Doe"}','application/json',
                "strip" => '@../uploads/icon.png','application/octet-string','icon.png',
                "strip@2x" => '@../uploads/icon.png','application/octet-string','icon.png');

$auth1 = array(  "authorization: Basic xxxxxxxxxxxx=",  "cache-control: no-cache",  "postman-token: xxxxxxxxx");

$ch1 = curl_init($url1);
curl_setopt($ch1, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch1, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch1, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data1);
curl_setopt($ch1, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch1, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $auth1);

$response1 = curl_exec($ch1);

echo $response1;

It replies with a response saying invalid JSON

If anyone can help that would be great.

Thanks

Rob

JesusTheHun · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-12 10:48:04Z

2

You should not write raw json string, but let PHP do it for you.

$values = array(
    'first' => 'John',
    'last' => 'Doe'
);

$data1 = array(
    'values' => json_encode($values),
    'strip' => '@../uploads/icon.png',
        'application/octet-string',
        'icon.png',
    'strip@2x' => '@../uploads/icon.png',
        'application/octet-string',
        'icon.png'
);

edited Feb 12, 2018 at 10:48

answered Jun 1, 2016 at 14:07

JesusTheHun

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JesusTheHun Over a year ago

Ok so it means what you send is valid JSON format but invalid data structure from what they expect.

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