php post request code example
Example 1: post request php
$response = httpPost("http://mywebsite.com/update.php",
array("first_name"=>"Bob","last_name"=>"Dillon")
);
//using php curl (sudo apt-get install php-curl)
function httpPost($url, $data){
$curl = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($data));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
return $response;
}
Example 2: php post request
$url = 'http://server.com/path';
$data = array('key1' => 'value1', 'key2' => 'value2');
// use key 'http' even if you send the request to https://...
$options = array(
'http' => array(
'header' => "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n",
'method' => 'POST',
'content' => http_build_query($data)
)
);
$context = stream_context_create($options);
$result = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
if ($result === FALSE) { /* Handle error */ }
var_dump($result);