send json with php code example

Example 1: send application/json php

// API URL
$url = 'http://www.example.com/api';

// Create a new cURL resource
$ch = curl_init($url);

// Setup request to send json via POST
$data = array(
  'username' => 'codexworld',
  'password' => '123456');
$payload = json_encode(array("user" => $data));

// Attach encoded JSON string to the POST fields
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $payload);

// Set the content type to application/json
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type:application/json'));

// Return response instead of outputting
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

// Execute the POST request
$result = curl_exec($ch);

// Close cURL resource
curl_close($ch);

Example 2: how to make a json request in php

<?php
$jsonurl = "http://api.wipmania.com/json";
$json = file_get_contents($jsonurl);
var_dump(json_decode($json));
?>