“JSON文本必须是对象或数组”错误

Question

I'm using PHP to connect to an API and register some info using JSON and HTTP POST but it is not going well.

That is what I do:

1. I create a JSON object with the json_encode function:

   $name = 'Mike';
   
   $surname = 'Hans';
   
   $fields = array('name' => json_encode($name), 'surname' => json_encode($surname));
   $postData = json_encode($flds);
   

2. Once i have the post data, I just connect to the API with curl and login with oauth, but the API responde says:

JSON text must be an object or array (but found number, string, true, false or null, use allow_nonref to allow this)

I have checked the allow_nonref in Google, but i could not find anything for PHP, all I have found is for Perl. Does anyone have any solution/advice to solve this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You probably need to send the entire POST as JSON without nesting calls to json_encode, like this:

$fields = array('name' => $name, 'surname' => $surname); 
$postData = json_encode( $fields);