php CURLOPT_POST code example

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: curlopt_postfields php example

<?php

$postRequest = array(
    'firstFieldData' => 'foo',
    'secondFieldData' => 'bar'
);

$cURLConnection = curl_init('http://hostname.tld/api');
curl_setopt($cURLConnection, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postRequest);
curl_setopt($cURLConnection, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

$apiResponse = curl_exec($cURLConnection);
curl_close($cURLConnection);

// $apiResponse - available data from the API request
$jsonArrayResponse - json_decode($apiResponse);

Example 3: CURL POST - PHP

$post_data_arr = [
      'f_name' => 'First',
      'l_name' => 'Last',
    ]; 
    
    $url = 'http://example.com';
    $curl = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_data_arr);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    $response = curl_exec($curl);
    curl_close($curl);
    print_r($response);

Example 4: curlopt_postfields php example

<?php

$cURLConnection = curl_init();

curl_setopt($cURLConnection, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://hostname.tld/phone-list');
curl_setopt($cURLConnection, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

$phoneList = curl_exec($cURLConnection);
curl_close($cURLConnection);

$jsonArrayResponse - json_decode($phoneList);