How to send a post request to the RESTserver api in php-Codeigniter?
Finally I came up with a solution, I used PHP cURL to send a post request to my RESTserver.
Here is my RESTclient POST request
$data = array( 'patient_id' => '1', 'department_name' => 'a', 'patient_type' => 'b' ); $data_string = json_encode($data); $curl = curl_init('http://localhost/patient-portal/api/patient/visit'); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST"); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array( 'Content-Type: application/json', 'Content-Length: ' . strlen($data_string)) ); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); // Make it so the data coming back is put into a string curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_string); // Insert the data // Send the request $result = curl_exec($curl); // Free up the resources $curl is using curl_close($curl); echo $result;
you may debug your code. try to print Global variable $_POST.and I think this may solve your problemjust use $this->input->post instead of instead of $this->post