CURL with JSON

function createJsonCurlRequest($type, $url, $params)
{
$postData = '';
if (!empty($params)) {
$postData = json_encode($params);
}
$ch2 = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, false); // IMPORTANT - NEED TO ALLOW RESPONSE TO BE RETURNED
curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_POST, $type == 'POST');
curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1);
curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postData);
curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($ch2, CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT, true);
curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
'Content-Type: application/json',
'Content-Length: ' . strlen($postData))
);
return $ch2;
}