 <p>@igoru for your question in the comment use PHPDOC before function documentation </p> <pre><code> * @param {type} $variable {comment} **{@from body}** </code></pre> <p>that's <code>**{@from body}**</code> would make the variable sent by request body .</p> <p>if you wants to send it from php , use the following :</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php $data = array("name" =&gt; "Another", "email" =&gt; "another@email.com"); $data_string = json_encode($data); $ch = curl_init("http://restler3.luracast.com/examples/_007_crud/index.php/authors"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_string); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array( 'Content-Type: application/json', 'Content-Length: ' . strlen($data_string)) ); $result = curl_exec($ch); echo($result); </code></pre>