CURL POST Json

curl_post_foobar.php

#!/usr/bin/env php
<?php

$url = $argv[1];
$data = array('foo' => 'bar');

echo '>>>>> request : ' . $url . PHP_EOL;

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($data));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
$status = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

if (false === $response) {
    echo 'curl error : ' . curl_error($ch) . PHP_EOL;
} else {
    echo 'response : ' . PHP_EOL;
    var_dump(json_decode($response, true));
    echo 'status : ' . $status . PHP_EOL;
}

echo '<<<<< end request' . PHP_EOL;

curl_close($ch);