I'm getting an error when trying to POST a new user to my my cUrl testing enviroment in php

Question

im new and trying to learn cURL in php but when trying to POST my new made user to my testing enviroment i get an error.

I've tried debugging and looking for various things but couldn't find anything in specific that was wrong. I tried googling as well but all the answers i found made no sense enter

string(830) "{"status":400,"error":"There was a problem in the JSON you submitted [92677fc5f9526c8878a88c61e3ca5a27]: unexpected characters after the JSON document () at line 1, column 1 [parse.c:618] 
in '--------------------------7c5256387e2a9ed5\r\nContent-Disposition: 
attachment; name=\"name\"\r\n\r\njohn jeff\r\n-------------------------

-7c5256387e2a9ed5\r\nContent-Disposition: attachment; 
name=\"email\"\r\n\r\nhelloyes@hotmail.com\r\n-------------------------

-7c5256387e2a9ed5\r\nContent-Disposition: attachment; name=\"phone\"\r\n\r\n09009090\r\n-------------------------

-7c5256387e2a9ed5\r\nContent-Disposition: attachment; name=\"companies\"\r\n\r\nLandstede\r\n-------------------------

-7c5256387e2a9ed5\r\nContent-Disposition: attachment; name=\"user_id\"\r\n\r\n420\r\n--------------------------
7c5256387e2a9ed5--\r\n"}"

if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.intercom.io/users");
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
    if (isset($_POST['unsubscribed_from_emails'])) {
        $post = ['name' => $_POST['name'],
            'email' => $_POST['email'],
            'phone' => $_POST['phone'],
            'companies' => $_POST['companies'],
            'user_id' => $_POST['user_id'],
            'unsubscribed_from_emails' => $_POST['unsubscribed_from_emails']
        ];
    } else {
        $post = ['name' => $_POST['name'],
            'email' => $_POST['email'],
            'phone' => $_POST['phone'],
            'companies' => $_POST['companies'],
            'user_id' => $_POST['user_id']
        ];
    }
  //var_dump($post);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);  //Post Fields
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

    $headers = [
        'Authorization:Bearer <MYKEYYOUCANTSEE>',
        'Accept: application/json',
        'Content-type: application/json',
    ];

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

    $server_output = curl_exec($ch);

    curl_close($ch);

  //  var_dump($server_output);
}

I just want the user to be added to the enviroment but nothing happens. Only when i var_dump'd to find the problem i got that errormessage.

Answer 1

You need to json_encode() the $post data.

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($post));  //Post Fields