Matlab sending and receiving POST to php

Question

I'm having difficulty in Matlab connecting to a local webserver and sending POST data to and from a simple script. (I'm new to urlread/write and webread/write and very new to PHP).

My Matlab script:

myURL = 'http://localhost:8000/webhook/matlabTest.php';
[s status] = urlread(myURL,'post',{'test','data'});
disp(status);

My PHP script:

<?php
$raw_text = json_encode($_POST);
echo "triggered " . $raw_text;

I've also tried in Matlab:

options = weboptions('RequestMethod','post');
[s status] = webread(myURL,'test','data',options);
disp(status);

I keep getting the Matlab error :

The server returned the message: "Connection refused" for URL, 'http://localhost:8000/webhook/matlabTest.php' (with HTTP response code 400)

but if I put http://localhost:8000/webhook/matlabTest.php in my browser it works fine.

Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

Figured it out. Silly really. Port 8000 is for the netbeans internal server used for development only. I moved the file to my Apache server on port 8080 and all works as expected.