Should work fine.
$data = array('name' => 'Ross', 'php_master' => true);
// You can POST a file by prefixing with an @ (for <input type="file"> fields)
$data['file'] = '@/home/user/world.jpg';
$handle = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_exec($handle);
curl_close($handle)
We have two options here, CURLOPT_POST which turns HTTP POST on, and CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS which contains an array of our post data to submit. This can be used to submit data to POST <form>s.
It is important to note that curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data); takes the $data in two formats, and that this determines how the post data will be encoded.
$data as an array(): The data will be sent as multipart/form-data which is not always accepted by the server.
$data = array('name' => 'Ross', 'php_master' => true);
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
$data as url encoded string: The data will be sent as application/x-www-form-urlencoded, which is the default encoding for submitted html form data.
$data = array('name' => 'Ross', 'php_master' => true);
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($data));
I hope this will help others save their time.
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Ross has the right idea for POSTing the usual parameter/value format to a url.
I recently ran into a situation where I needed to POST some XML as Content-Type "text/xml" without any parameter pairs so here's how you do that:
$xml = '<?xml version="1.0"?><stuff><child>foo</child><child>bar</child></stuff>';
$httpRequest = curl_init();
curl_setopt($httpRequest, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($httpRequest, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Content-Type: text/xml"));
curl_setopt($httpRequest, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($httpRequest, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($httpRequest, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($httpRequest, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml);
$returnHeader = curl_exec($httpRequest);
curl_close($httpRequest);
In my case, I needed to parse some values out of the HTTP response header so you may not necessarily need to set CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER or CURLOPT_HEADER.