I've setup a Webhook to get notifications posted to a PHP page on my server. The notification request to my server is like this:
POST /message/receive HTTP/1.1
Host: http://www.yoururl.com/zipwhip/api/receive
Content-Length: 581
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
{ "body":"Thanks for texting, this is an auto reply!",
"bodySize":42,
"visible":true,
"hasAttachment":false,
"dateRead":null,
"bcc":null,
"finalDestination":"4257772300",
"messageType":"MO",
"deleted":false,
"statusCode":4,
"id":634151298329219072, "scheduledDate":null, "fingerprint":"132131532", "messageTransport":9, "contactId":3382213402, "address":"ptn:/4257772222",
"read" "dateCreated":"2015-08-19T16:53:45-07:00", "dateDeleted":null,
"dateDelivered":null,
"cc":null,
"finalSource":"4257772222",
} "dev
I've tried using the following to convert the JSON data to a string that I can work with, but I'm getting nothing so far:
$inputJSON = file_get_contents('php://input');
$input= json_decode( $inputJSON, TRUE );
Everything I've read indicates this should work - I tested the following and this is actually working:
$webhookContent = "";
$webhook = fopen('php://input' , 'rb');
while (!feof($webhook)) {
$webhookContent .= fread($webhook, 4096);
}
fclose($webhook);
I'm trying to understand why file_get_contents('php://input'); doesn't work when everything I've read indicates that's the function I should be using, and why fopen('php://input' , 'rb'); works instead?
If I do var_dump($inputJSON) I get:
string(527) "{ "body":"Thanks for texting, this is an auto reply!",
"bodySize":42,
"visible":true,
"hasAttachment":false,
"dateRead":null,
"bcc":null,
"finalDestination":"4257772300",
"messageType":"MO",
"deleted":false,
"statusCode":4,
"id":634151298329219072, "scheduledDate":null, "fingerprint":"132131532", "messageTransport":9, "contactId":3382213402, "address":"ptn:/4257772222",
"read" "dateCreated":"2015-08-19T16:53:45-07:00", "dateDeleted":null,
"dateDelivered":null,
"cc":null,
"finalSource":"4257772222",
}"
var_dump($input) returns NULL