how to create incident with PHP/fsockopen

[m_f1]

Hello,

I am trying to add a feature to certain programs we have that will automatically generate incidents. I was looking at the documentation here

https://express.servicenow.com/support/documentation/r_RESTTableAPICreateRecord/

and trying to test generating a new incident. I am required to use PHP and fsockopen to send the request. The code looks like this:

<?php

$host = 'ourdomain.service-now.com';

$path = '/api/now/table/incident';

$fp = fsockopen($host, 443, $err_num, $err_str, 30);

print_r($fp);

if(!$fp){

echo $err_num . ' ' . $err_str . "\n";

}

else{

$eol = "\r\n";

$out = 'POST /api/now/table/incident HTTP/1.1' . $eol;

$out .= 'Host: www.ourdomain.com' . $eol;

$out .= 'Content-Type: application/json' . $eol;

$out .= 'Accept: application/json' . $eol;

$out .= 'Connection: Close' . $eol . $eol;

$d = array(

'short_description' => 'test from ss'

);

$out .= json_encode($d) . $eol . $eol;

echo $out;

fwrite($fp, $out);

$contents = ";

while(!feof($fp)){

$contents .= fgets($fp, 4096);

}

fclose($fp);

secho($contents);

}

?>

It generates a request that looks like this:

POST /api/now/table/incident HTTP/1.1

Host: http://www.ourdomain.com

Content-Type: application/json

Accept: application/json

Connection: Close

{"short_description":"test from ss"}

Can you tell me if that request is correct, or if there are additional fields that need to be sent?

Is the port correct (443)?

Anything else you see wrong?

I don't believe it's correct because I am receiving no response from your server.

Thank you!

[m_f1 · Accepted solution]

I figured it out!

<?php

$auth = base64_encode('username:pwd');

$host = 'ourdomain.service-now.com';

$path = '/api/now/table/incident';

$eol = "\r\n";

//file_get_contents

      $d = array(

                      'short_description' => 'test from ss'

              );

              $out = json_encode($d);

      // Create a stream

      $opts = array(

              'http' => array(

                      'method' => 'POST',

                      'header' =>

                              'Content-Type: application/json' . $eol .

                              'Accept: application/json' . $eol .

                              'Authorization: Basic ' . $auth . $eol . $eol,

                      'content' => $out

              )

      );

      print_r($opts);

      $context = stream_context_create($opts);

      $file = file_get_contents('https://' . $host . $path, false, $context);

      echo($file);

?>

[tony_barratt]

Hi M F,

Excellent!!

Thanks for posting and figuring it out!

Best Regards

Tony