Webhook from shopify with laravel 4 - laravel-4

Question

Using laravel to do a webhook for shopify on order creation
I specify my url in the webhook to my site.
I use postcatcher to receive the data from the webhook call so that I know what data they are passing in.
the data looks something like this
{
"customer": {
"default_address": {
"default": true,
"country_name": "Singapore",
"country_code": "SG",
"province_code": null,
"name": "Own Card",
"zip": "234567",
"province": "Singapore",
"phone": "",
"last_name": "Card",
"id": 275454813,
"first_name": "Own",
"country": "Singapore",
"company": "",
"city": "Singapore",
"address2": "",
"address1": ""
},
"last_order_name": null,
"tags": "",
"verified_email": true,
"updated_at": "2014-03-14T06:10:59-04:00",
"total_spent": "0.00",
"state": "disabled",
"orders_count": 0,
"note": null,
"multipass_identifier": null,
"last_order_id": null,
"last_name": "Koh",
"id": 219085425,
"first_name": "Kwang",
"email": "Kwang#a.com.sg",
"created_at": "2014-03-14T05:55:55-04:00",
"accepts_marketing": true
},
"client_details": {
"user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/33.0.1750.146 Safari/537.36",
"session_hash": "c30217b1565a1f69ca5c1cb944ee6769c39de0f9acc8d6685975d551a2ff246f",
"browser_ip": "118.200.236.161",
"accept_language": "en-GB,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.6"
},
"fulfillments": [],
"shipping_address": {
"province_code": null,
"country_code": "SG",
"name": "Own Card",
"zip": "123456",
"province": "Singapore",
"phone": "12345676",
"longitude": "1.151376",
"latitude": "1.2646",
"last_name": "Card",
"first_name": "Own",
"country": "Singapore",
"company": "",
"city": "Singapore",
"address2": "",
"address1": ""
},
"billing_address": {
"province_code": null,
"country_code": "SG",
"name": "Own Card",
"zip": "312133",
"province": "Singapore",
"phone": "",
"longitude": "103.351376",
"latitude": "1.33146",
"last_name": "Card",
"first_name": "Own",
"country": "Singapore",
"company": "",
"city": "Singapore",
"address2": "",
"address1": ""
},
"payment_details": {
"credit_card_company": "Bogus",
"credit_card_number": "XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-1",
"cvv_result_code": null,
"credit_card_bin": "1",
"avs_result_code": null
},
"shipping_lines": [
{
"tax_lines": [],
"title": "Standard Shipping",
"source": "shopify",
"price": "10.00",
"code": "Standard Shipping"
}
],
"line_items": [
{
"tax_lines": [],
"product_exists": true,
"properties": [],
"variant_inventory_management": null,
"name": "test",
"vendor": "Kwang",
"variant_title": "",
"variant_id": 315650553,
"title": "test",
"taxable": true,
"sku": "1",
"requires_shipping": true,
"quantity": 1,
"product_id": 265080025,
"price": "12.00",
"id": 432417197,
"grams": 0,
"fulfillment_status": null,
"fulfillment_service": "manual"
}
],
"tags": "",
"tax_lines": [],
"checkout_id": 221740105,
"processing_method": "direct",
"note_attributes": [],
"discount_codes": [],
"order_number": 1003,
"landing_site_ref": null,
"browser_ip": "118.200.236.122",
"user_id": null,
"updated_at": "2014-03-14T06:10:59-04:00",
"total_weight": 0,
"total_tax": "0.00",
"total_price_usd": "17.37",
"total_price": "22.00",
"total_line_items_price": "12.00",
"total_discounts": "0.00",
"token": "3c71c6a830eee3b7cb0c8627e4d48e03",
"test": true,
"taxes_included": false,
"subtotal_price": "12.00",
"source_url": null,
"source_name": "web",
"source_identifier": null,
"source": "browser",
"referring_site": "",
"reference": null,
"number": 3,
"note": null,
"name": "#1003",
"location_id": null,
"landing_site": "/products/test",
"id": 244075413,
"gateway": "bogus",
"fulfillment_status": null,
"financial_status": "authorized",
"email": "kwank#a.com.sg",
"currency": "SGD",
"created_at": "2014-03-14T06:10:58-04:00",
"confirmed": true,
"closed_at": null,
"checkout_token": "95dc1ed9b867df5b1ecdf770de4eba3b",
"cart_token": "ab1795435caebccb6d96ee69f716a4c9",
"cancelled_at": null,
"cancel_reason": null,
"buyer_accepts_marketing": true
}
How do I actually access it from my php laravel function? I did something like this but when using POSTMAN to send this over i dont get anything from $c.
$inputs = Input::all();
$c = $inputs ['customer'];
Anyone can help?

Answer 1

It seems like you are passing the data as a json body. The code you've shown could've worked but lets try this.
First off do this:
$inputs = Input::all();
$c = $inputs->customer;
Now lets try:
$inputs = Input::json()->all();
$c = $inputs->customer;
Does it return anything?
Finally lets try:
$c = Input::get('customer');
$cd = Input::get('customer.default_address');
Based on the docs:
Some JavaScript libraries such as Backbone may send input to the application as JSON. You may access this data via Input::get like normal.
on postman you have to post that request as a json body.
Select the raw tab then change text to json... and copy paste the whole request into the textarea.
So the actual query you are looking for is:
$customer = Input::get('customer');
now you have everything that is inside the customer in $inputs.
access it like:
$default_address = $customer->default_address; // returns object
$state = $customer->state; // returns string
You can even wrap it around:
if (Request::isJson())
{
// make sure it is from a json body
}
update
try this:
$inputs = Input::all();
dd($inputs); // what does this return?