hubspot webhook trouble in PHP

Question

I have been asked to deal with web hook concept. I am very new to this concept and i will need your help. I was asked to provide a URL to a company so they can send json data from their website.

So far i found this :

 //  Initiate curl
 $ch = curl_init();
 // Disable SSL verification
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
 // Will return the response, if false it print the response
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
 // Set the url
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
 // Execute
 $result=curl_exec($ch);
 // Closing
 curl_close($ch);

 // Will dump a beauty json :3
 var_dump(json_decode($result, true));

so is URL same as this PHP file? I am really confused. Thank You

Answer 1

It's hard to be sure from the info you are providing, but you are probably coming at this the wrong way around.

You probably need to write a php script that will be the target of a webhook. Here is a post that should get you started: Catching json data from hubspot webhook

Answer 2

Update: I have created an article to help with this

You don't need to use curl for a HubSpot webhook, the webhook should trigger some kind of action on your server and receive posted data ready for massaging and manipulating. A webhook could be, when a contact fills out a form or completes a specific action within HubSpot and you push that data to your custom script on a stand alone server. You should start with how to handle JSON data in a POST request. http://edwin.baculsoft.com/2011/12/how-to-handle-json-post-request-using-php/

That article should help out a bit...

Since you don't normally know what that posted data from HubSpot looks like just yet, you can use a service like requestbin to view the data that is being posted.. Note: they might have a cap on the amount of JSON it can handle in the request so you might need to find another service that gives you the complete JSON data or create a script on your server that saves the request to a file. For requestbin, you would create a workflow in hubspot with the action being a webhook and set the type to post and the url to the url that you received when creating a new requestbin.

Once you know what the JSON data structure is that is coming into your server, you can start to go to work on manipulating that data.