I have a nested multi dimensional json object and I want to make a post request with this json but I did not find a direct way to send post request with this json because I did not find a way to declare a json object in php and even i cant convert this json_object to array because of the posted data corrupted

json_object={
    "messages": {
        "authentication": {
            "productToken": "your product token"
        },
        "msg": [{
            "body": {
                "type": "auto",
                "content": "Fallback Text for SMS"
            },
            "to": [{
                "number": "00316012345678"
            }],
            "from": "00316098765432",
            "allowedChannels": ["WhatsApp"],
            "richContent": {
                "conversation": [{
                    "text": "A text message with *bold* formatting in a speech bubble."
                }, {
                    "text": "Another speech bubble"
                }, {
                    "media": {
                        "mediaName": "and an image",
                        "mediaUri": "https://www.cm.com/cdn/web/nl-nl/blog/conversational-commerce.jpg",
                        "mimeType": "image/jpeg"
                    }
                }]
            }
        }]
    }
}

i want to make a post request with this json_object but i cant declare a json object in php so i should Convert My json_object to Array but i could not convert this json_object to array without corrupting request data

this is my code

$data = http_build_query($json_object);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$resp = curl_exec($ch);
if($e = curl_error($ch)) {
    echo $e;
}
else {
    $decoded=json_decode($resp);
    foreach($decoded as $key => $val) {
        echo $key  . ':'. $val. '<br>';
    }
}
curl_close($ch);

Can anyone help me sending this post request please ?

CodePudding user response：

Consider the following example.

<?PHP
  $json_object = '{
    "messages": {
        "authentication": {
            "productToken": "your product token"
        },
        "msg": [{
            "body": {
                "type": "auto",
                "content": "Fallback Text for SMS"
            },
            "to": [{
                "number": "00316012345678"
            }],
            "from": "00316098765432",
            "allowedChannels": ["WhatsApp"],
            "richContent": {
                "conversation": [{
                    "text": "A text message with *bold* formatting in a speech bubble."
                }, {
                    "text": "Another speech bubble"
                }, {
                    "media": {
                        "mediaName": "and an image",
                        "mediaUri": "https://www.cm.com/cdn/web/nl-nl/blog/conversational-commerce.jpg",
                        "mimeType": "image/jpeg"
                    }
                }]
            }
        }]
    }
}';
$decoded = json_decode($json_object);
foreach($decoded as $key => $val) {
    echo "$key: " . serialize($val) . '<br>';
}
?>

The result would be the following:

messages: O:8:"stdClass":2:{s:14:"authentication";O:8:"stdClass":1:{s:12:"productToken";s:18:"your product token";}s:3:"msg";a:1:{i:0;O:8:"stdClass":5:{s:4:"body";O:8:"stdClass":2:{s:4:"type";s:4:"auto";s:7:"content";s:21:"Fallback Text for SMS";}s:2:"to";a:1:{i:0;O:8:"stdClass":1:{s:6:"number";s:14:"00316012345678";}}s:4:"from";s:14:"00316098765432";s:15:"allowedChannels";a:1:{i:0;s:8:"WhatsApp";}s:11:"richContent";O:8:"stdClass":1:{s:12:"conversation";a:3:{i:0;O:8:"stdClass":1:{s:4:"text";s:57:"A text message with *bold* formatting in a speech bubble.";}i:1;O:8:"stdClass":1:{s:4:"text";s:21:"Another speech bubble";}i:2;O:8:"stdClass":1:{s:5:"media";O:8:"stdClass":3:{s:9:"mediaName";s:12:"and an image";s:8:"mediaUri";s:65:"https://www.cm.com/cdn/web/nl-nl/blog/conversational-commerce.jpg";s:8:"mimeType";s:10:"image/jpeg";}}}}}}}<br>

If there is a specific portion you want to address, you would need to target it from the current object.

If you want specific parts, you need to perform a lot of extra steps:

<?php
  $json_object = '{
    "messages": {
        "authentication": {
            "productToken": "your product token"
        },
        "msg": [{
            "body": {
                "type": "auto",
                "content": "Fallback Text for SMS"
            },
            "to": [{
                "number": "00316012345678"
            }],
            "from": "00316098765432",
            "allowedChannels": ["WhatsApp"],
            "richContent": {
                "conversation": [{
                    "text": "A text message with *bold* formatting in a speech bubble."
                }, {
                    "text": "Another speech bubble"
                }, {
                    "media": {
                        "mediaName": "and an image",
                        "mediaUri": "https://www.cm.com/cdn/web/nl-nl/blog/conversational-commerce.jpg",
                        "mimeType": "image/jpeg"
                    }
                }]
            }
        }]
    }
}';
$decoded = json_decode($json_object);
foreach($decoded->messages->msg as $message){
    echo "To: " . $message->to[0]->number . "<br>\r\n";
    echo "From: " . $message->from . "<br>\r\n";
    foreach($message->richContent->conversation as $val){
        if(isset($val->text)){
            $txt = preg_replace("#\*([^*] )\*#", "<b>$1</b>", $val->text);
            echo  $txt . "<br>\r\n";
        } elseif(isset($val->media)) {
            if($val->media->mimeType == "image/jpeg"){
                echo "<img src='{$val->media->mediaUri}' title='{$val->media->mediaName}'>\r\n";
            }
        }
    }
};

This results in:

To: 00316012345678<br>
From: 00316098765432<br>
A text message with <b>bold</b> formatting in a speech bubble.<br>
Another speech bubble<br>
<img src="https://www.cm.com/cdn/web/nl-nl/blog/conversational-commerce.jpg" title="and an image">