Writing data from your Web Service – adding a POST endpoint to your component

We have defined two endpoints so far: the v1/invoices and v1/projects endpoints. For both endpoints, we have enabled the POST request type so that users can create projects (implicit when using the createCRUDRoutes() method) and invoices (we explicitly added the POST route in our WebServices plugin).

In the previous section, we already added the controller to handle projects. The Joomla! FrameworkTM is really useful when we abide by its structure and you may just try to create a project using the POST request. We can test this by creating a post.php script as we did with the get.php script. So, create the Scripts/api/post.php file with the following content:

<?php
if (extension_loaded('curl') == false) {
    throw new \Exception('curl not installed');
}
$url = 'https://YourSite.com/api/v1/projects/';
$data = array(
    ...