How can I use Guzzle to send a POST request in JSON?

This worked for me (using Guzzle 6)

$client = new Client(); 
$result = $client->post('http://api.example.com', [
            'json' => [
                'value_1' => 'number1',
                'Value_group' =>  
                             array("value_2" => "number2",
                                    "value_3" => "number3")
                    ]
                ]);

echo($result->getBody()->getContents());

The simple and basic way (guzzle6):

$client = new Client([
    'headers' => [ 'Content-Type' => 'application/json' ]
]);

$response = $client->post('http://api.com/CheckItOutNow',
    ['body' => json_encode(
        [
            'hello' => 'World'
        ]
    )]
);

To get the response status code and the content of the body I did this:

echo '<pre>' . var_export($response->getStatusCode(), true) . '</pre>';
echo '<pre>' . var_export($response->getBody()->getContents(), true) . '</pre>';

For Guzzle <= 4:

It's a raw post request so putting the JSON in the body solved the problem

$request = $this->client->post(
    $url,
    [
        'content-type' => 'application/json'
    ],
);
$request->setBody($data); #set body!
$response = $request->send();

For Guzzle 5, 6 and 7 you do it like this:

use GuzzleHttp\Client;

$client = new Client();

$response = $client->post('url', [
    GuzzleHttp\RequestOptions::JSON => ['foo' => 'bar'] // or 'json' => [...]
]);

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