Write to MongoLab REST API from PHP

mongolab-rest-api.php

// Get this at your MongoLab.com user page
$MONGOLAB_API_KEY = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXX';
$DB = 'mydb';
$COLLECTION = 'mycollection';

$name = $_POST['fullName'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$phone = $_POST['phoneNumber'];
$src  = $_POST['src'];
$milliseconds = round(microtime(true) * 1000);

$data = json_encode(
  array("fullname" => $name,
    "email" => $email,
    "phone" => $phone,
    "src" => $src,
    // see http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Mongo+Extended+JSON
    "date" => array('$date' => $milliseconds)
  )
);

$url = "https://api.mongolab.com/api/1/databases/$DB/collections/$COLLECTION?apiKey=$MONGOLAB_API_KEY";

try { 
  $ch = curl_init();

  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
      'Content-Type: application/json',
      'Content-Length: ' . strlen($data),
      )
  );

  $response = curl_exec($ch);
  $error = curl_error($ch);
  $response_code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
  curl_close($ch);

  echo "OK";
} catch (Exception $e) {
  echo "FAIL";
}