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Am working on a form whereby the data submitted the user am posting to an API via PHP curl. From the form, I have inputs that are controlled by a drop-down list where the user fills children details. It all works fine except that I need to post the inputs from the drop-down on the API which throws an error. The origin of the error is problem posting the filtered results from the array...

~ Please assist?

Am array containing Children inputs from a dropdown

 $a= [

    'child1'=>  isset($request->childDetail1Dob) ? $request->childDetail1Dob : null,

    'child2'=>  isset($request->childDetail2Dob) ? $request->childDetail2Dob : null,

    'child3'=>  isset($request->childDetail3Dob) ? $request->childDetail3Dob : null,

    'child4'=>  isset($request->childDetail4Dob) ? $request->childDetail4Dob : null,

    'child5'=>  isset($request->childDetail5Dob) ? $request->childDetail5Dob : null,

  ];

Filter array to eliminate fields with null values

$b = array_filter($a, function($k) use ($a) { return $k!=null; });

Data am trying to post

 $data = array(

            'DobPrincipalTraveller' => "1992-02-05",

            'TravelStartDate' => "2018-11-23",

            'TravelEndDate' => "2018-11-30",

            'CoverOption' => "Grade 4",

            'DobOfSpouse' => "0000-00-00",

            'Children' => $b,

            'WithSpouse' => $request->spouse == null ?  '0' : '1'

        );

Posts data to the API via POST

 $travelplan = $this->global_Curl_Meta(

            $data, 'api/travel/get-plans')->data;

Curl function

public function global_Curl_Meta($data, $url)

{

    $ch = curl_init();

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, (env('API_ENDPOINT_NGINX_IP') . '/' . $url));

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type:application/json'));

    //Post and convert array to JSON

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($data));

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT, TRUE); 

    $response = json_decode(curl_exec($ch));

    curl_close($ch);

    return $response;

}

Sample data required by the API

{"DobPrincipalTraveller":"1978-01-22",

"TravelStartDate":"2018-11-22",

"TravelEndDate":"2018-11-25",

"CoverOption":"Standard",

"WithSpouse":"1",

"DobOfSpouse":"02-08-1979",

"Children":[

    {"DateOfBirth":"2015-05-23"},

    {"DateOfBirth":"2016-09-13"}

  ]

}

instead of $b = array_filter($a, function($k) use ($a) { return $k!=null; });

use

$b = ;

foreach($a as $val){

    if($val){

        $b['DateOfBirth']  = $val;

    }

  }