I have been trying to use MongoLabs api to simplify my life, and for the most part it was working until I tried to push updates to the db using php and curl, anyway no dice. My code is similar to this:
$data_string = json_encode('{"user.userEmail": "USER_EMAIL", "user.pass":"USER_PASS"}');
try {
$ch = curl_init();
//need to create temp file to pass to curl to use PUT
$tempFile = fopen('php://temp/maxmemory:256000', 'w');
if (!$tempFile) {
die('could not open temp memory data');
}
fwrite($tempFile, $data_string);
fseek($tempFile, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT");
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, true);
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILE, $tempFile); // file pointer
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, DB_API_REQUEST_TIMEOUT);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_string);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
'Content-Type: application/json',
'Content-Length: ' . strlen($data_string),
)
);
$cache = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
} catch (Exception $e) {
return FALSE;
}
My problem seems to be with MongoLab's api. The code bit works perfect except for the fact that labs tells me that the data I am passing is an 'Invalid object{ "user.firstName" :"Pablo","user.newsletter":"true"}: fields stored in the db can't have . in them.'. I have tried passing a file and using the postfields, but neither worked.
When I test it on firefox's Poster plugin the value work fine. If someone out there has a better understanding of MongoLabs stuff I would love some enlightenment. Thanks in advance!