POST/PUT endpoints do not work.

I'm using the NB api via PHP. The GET/DELETE methods both work but no matter what I try I can not edit or add a new people resource using the client->fetch() function.

The error code is always a 400 no matter how I format the parameters. Please help and don't give me a canned response to the API helper because I've spent 3.5 hours already trying various things in the documentation which is thin to say the least.

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Arion Hardison

Arion Hardison commented
Tom, take a look at this: https://gist.github.com/arionhardison/4828c259dc0f8d4ab2af
posted 2014-08-14 10:37:54 -0700
Tom Adkins

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Tom Adkins commented
My post would be more legible if Nationbuilder weren’t adding <a> tags around my PHP variables. Sheesh.</a>
posted 2014-08-14 09:59:27 -0700

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I had big frustrations getting POST and PUT requests to work in PHP as well. Here’s are the functions I ended up writing, which do the job:


        public function post($query,$params) {

                <a class="tweet-url cashtag" href="https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%24handle" title="$handle">$handle</a> = curl_init();
                                
                curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_URL, NB_API_URL.$query."?access_token=".NB_ACCESS_TOKEN);
                curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST,'POST');
                curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($params));
                curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json','Accept: application/json'));  
                curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);

                return json_decode(curl_exec($handle),true);
        }

        public function put($query,$params) {

                <a class="tweet-url cashtag" href="https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%24handle" title="$handle">$handle</a> = curl_init();
                                
                curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_URL, NB_API_URL.$query."?access_token=".NB_ACCESS_TOKEN);
                curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST,'PUT');
                curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($params));
                curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json','Accept: application/json'));  
                curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);

                return json_decode(curl_exec($handle),true);                 
        }

Then, to call the function:

                <a class="tweet-url cashtag" href="https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%24res" title="$res">$res</a> = <a class="tweet-url cashtag" href="https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%24api" title="$api">$api</a>-&amp;gt;put('/api/v1/people/push',$person);

where $person is your Person object.

posted 2014-08-14 09:53:40 -0700

Alex Coon

Alex Coon tagged this with Important

posted 2014-08-04 10:03:34 -0700
Adam Munns

Adam Munns commented
Arion, Thanks. That works. I had previously used curl to manually make the POST call but I was still setting the auth token using the $client->setAccessToken and probably why it didn’t work when I did a quick test using just curl.

At any rate you may want to revise your PHP quickstart and NOT mention the $client->fetch method if it does in fact not work:
http://nationbuilder.com/php_quickstart

The fetch function takes multiple parameters which allow for setting headers and HTTP Methods but like I said before POST/PUT don’t work. Thanks again for the help.
posted 2014-07-28 16:03:56 -0700
Arion Hardison

Arion Hardison commented
Adam, I hope this helps: https://gist.github.com/arionhardison/4828c259dc0f8d4ab2af
posted 2014-07-28 15:53:44 -0700
Jeff Lowe

Jeff Lowe tagged this with Important

posted 2014-07-28 15:48:33 -0700
Adam Munns

Adam Munns commented
Authorization token is fine because I’m able to DELETE.
posted 2014-07-28 15:30:33 -0700
Adam Munns
Adam Munns commented
Certainly. There are few threads here also asking about proper format for making POST requests via PHP but there aren’t any public answers on how to best accomplish this.

Here is what I’m doing.

http://pastebin.com/cYXK2MZs

At this point I’m just trying to get the correct output.

This is what I get back
Array ( [result] =&gt; [code] =&gt; 400 [content_type] =&gt; text/plain; charset=utf-8 )
posted 2014-07-28 15:29:27 -0700
Arion Hardison

Arion Hardison commented
Adam, I want to make sure I understand your issue. You have a form that is posting to a PHP page and instead of creating a signup it is returning a 400 error? If this is the case then I have a few questions.

1) What 400 error? A 404 could mean you have the URL wrong (I doubt this is the case since you said Delete/Get were working. 401 could be an auth error; in this case are you using test tokens?

2) Can you put up a gist of your code, if so if might be easier for me to help you debug what is actually going on. Since the calls are working for you via the API explorer its hard for me to know exactly what is going on without seeing the code.
posted 2014-07-28 14:42:15 -0700
Adam Munns

Adam Munns tagged this with Important

posted 2014-07-28 13:42:50 -0700