scraped from https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/207169/create-issue-with-rest-api-and-curl-using-php

jira-create-issues.php

<?php
  
$username = 'xxxxx';
$password = 'xxxxx';
               
$url = "xxxx/rest/api/2/issue/";
 
$data = array(
 
'fields' => array(
 
'project' => array(
 
'key' => 'xxx',
 
),
 
'summary' => 'This is summary',
 
'description' => 'This is description',
"issuetype" => array(
 
    "self" => "xxxx",
    "id" => "xxxx",
    "description" => "xxxxx",
    "iconUrl" => "xxxxx",
    "name" => "xxxx",
    "subtask" => false
 
),
),
 
);
 
$ch = curl_init();
  
$headers = array(
  
    'Accept: application/json',
  
    'Content-Type: application/json'
  
);
  
   
  
$test = "This is the content of the custom field.";
  
   
  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
  
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "GET");
  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($data));
  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");
  
   
  
$result = curl_exec($ch);
  
$ch_error = curl_error($ch);
  
   
  
if ($ch_error) {
  
    echo "cURL Error: $ch_error";
  
} else {
  
    echo $result;
  
}
  
   
  
curl_close($ch);
  
   
  
?>