Getting JSON data

Question

Im working with an api which stores data into a JSON file. This data is gathered from a form that the users fill in my website. The way its inserted goes as follow:

$pers_payload = array(
 'gender' => 'Unknown', //or Male / Female
 'first_name' => $_POST['billing_first_name'],
 'family_name' => $_POST ['billing_last_name'],
 'email' => $_POST['billing_email'],
 'linked_as_contact_to_organization' => array(
 array(
 'organization_id' => $organization_id, // add the person as a contact to the newly created organization
 'work_email' => $_POST['billing_email'],
 'work_phone' => $_POST['billing_phone']
 )
 ),
 'visiting_address' => array(
 'country_code' => 'NL'
 ), // can be extented with other address data
 'postal_address' => array(
 'country_code' => $_POST['billing_country'] 
 ) // can be extented with other address data
);

And then:

$person = $SimplicateApi->makeApiCall('POST','/crm/person',json_encode($pers_payload));

Now instead of post i want to get the data. I tried getting data like this:

$SimplicateApi->makeApiCall('GET','/crm/organization?q[name]=*my name*');

I dont know if this is the right way, well it didn't work so obviously its not.

Anyways what im trying to achieve is with PHP i want to gather the name value of an existing person. this data is stored in /api/v2/crm/person.json

Api documentation (which i read but didn't understand to well) http://api.simplicate.nl/

• Ohgodwhy: Could you not just replace $_POST with $_REQUEST in your array constructor?
• Andrei: From what I can tell, the second request, meaning $SimplicateApi->makeApiCall('POST','/crm/organization?q[name]=*my name*'); should be GET instead of POST. Other than that, I don't necessarily see anything wrong.
• Kevin.a: @Andrew sorry i tried get too, something went wrong with copy pasting. But i tried it already
• Andrei: Do you get any errors when making the call?
• Kevin.a: @Andrew nothing at all sadly.

Answer 1

It's been a while but i'm trying to answer all my open questions without an answer which i ended up solving on my own.

So for this.

You have to create a variable which makes the get request like this:

$test = $SimplicateApi->makeApiCall('GET','/crm/organization?q[name]=My name');

Now you can for example do a var_dump($test);

And as output you will get all the data inside

/crm/organization?q[name]=My name