$data = array("name" => "Hagrid", "age" => "36"); $data_string = json_encode($data); $ch = curl_init(\'http://api.local/rest/users\'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$data_string); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array( \'Content-Type: application/json\', \'Content-Length: \' . strlen($data_string)) ); $result = curl_exec($ch);
http://www.lornajane.net/posts/2011/posting-json-data-with-php-curl