Passing $_POST values with cURL

Question

How do you pass $_POST values to a page using cURL?

Answer 1

Another simple PHP example of using cURL:

<?php
    $ch = curl_init();                    // Initiate cURL
    $url = "http://www.somesite.com/curl_example.php"; // Where you want to post data
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);  // Tell cURL you want to post something
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "var1=value1&var2=value2&var_n=value_n"); // Define what you want to post
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); // Return the output in string format
    $output = curl_exec ($ch); // Execute

    curl_close ($ch); // Close cURL handle

    var_dump($output); // Show output
?>

Example found here: http://devzone.co.in/post-data-using-curl-in-php-a-simple-example/

Instead of using curl_setopt you can use curl_setopt_array.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt-array.php

Answer 2

$url='Your url'; // Specify your url
$data= array('parameterkey1'=>value,'parameterkey2'=>value); // Add parameters in key value
$ch = curl_init(); // Initialize cURL
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($data));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);