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PHP Curl times out when command works fine

I want the following cURL command to be converted to PHP

curl -X PUT -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"on":true,"bri":255,"sat":255,"hue":20000}' http://MYSITE:PORT/api/HASH/lights/1/state

I did the following but it is just timing out.

$data_json = '{"on":true,"bri":255,"sat":255,"hue":20000}';
$url = "http://MYSITE:PORT/api/HASH/lights/1/state";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'PUT');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$data_json);

$response  = curl_exec($ch);
echo $response;
curl_close($ch);
Solution

  • you can set the curl timeout like so

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT ,0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 400); //timeout in seconds

    you might want to increase the php timeout in php.ini too