Creating a case using PHP and CURL in desk.com

create.php

<?php

$json = json_encode(array(
  "subject" => "Test",
  "description" => "testing",
  "message" => array(
    "subject" => "Test",
    "body" => "Test",
    "direction" => "in",
    "to" => "support@example.com",
    "from" => "customer@example.com",
    "status" => "received"
  ),
  "type" => "phone",
  "_links" => array(
    "customer" => array("href" => "/api/v2/customers/207020953")
  )
));

$ch = curl_init(); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://site.desk.com/api/v2/cases'); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST"); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "my-email:my-password"); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $json); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array( 
  'Content-Type: application/json',
  'Content-Length: ' . strlen($json)) 
);

$result = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);

echo $result;