curl php example post json

Example 1: php curl post

// set post fields
$post = [
    'username' => 'user1',
    'password' => 'passuser1',
    'gender'   => 1,
];

$ch = curl_init('http://www.example.com');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);

// execute!
$response = curl_exec($ch);

// close the connection, release resources used
curl_close($ch);

// do anything you want with your response
var_dump($response);

Example 2: how to do a post with json body curl php

// API URL$url = 'http://www.example.com/api';// Create a new cURL resource$ch = curl_init($url);// Setup request to send json via POST$data = array(    'username' => 'codexworld',    'password' => '123456');$payload = json_encode(array("user" => $data));// Attach encoded JSON string to the POST fieldscurl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $payload);// Set the content type to application/jsoncurl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type:application/json'));// Return response instead of outputtingcurl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);// Execute the POST request$result = curl_exec($ch);// Close cURL resourcecurl_close($ch);