16 Jul 10 Passing PHP variable data through POST

Recently, I was developing an API for a PHP application I’d built, to be utilized by other php programmers. Essentially, the php programmer passes a load of data to our API though a POST variable. This is as follows:

$api->process($to_process, $data, $opt1, $opt2);

$to_process is an array, as follows;

$to_process = Array( Array(“FOO”, “BAR”, 1, 2), Array(“BAR”, “FOO”, 5, 3), Array(“HELLO”, “World”, 9, 10) );

And $data is a ~5k string containing HTML code.

My best option so far, has been $data_array = Array(); $data_array[] = $to_process; $data_array[] = $code; $data_array[] = $opt1; $data_array[] = $opt2;

We can then send urlrawencode(serialize($data_array)); from our PHP script to the web API via curl through POST data. On the remote API server, we don’t need to use urlrawdecode() as the web server handles this for you. It’s also worth ensuring that magic_quotes_gpc is off. Simply, $data_array = unserialize($_POST['variable']); should do just fine.

Tags: api, array, php programmer, php variable, post data, serialize, unserialize, urlrawencode

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