php use curl code example
Example 1: curl php example
function makeAPICall($url){
$handle = curl_init();
// Set the url
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
// Set the result output to be a string.
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$output = curl_exec($handle);
curl_close($handle);
echo $output;
return $output;
}
Example 2: curl php
// Initialize Curl
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://coinmarketcap.com/"); // set live website where data from
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE); // default
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE); // default
$content = curl_exec($curl);
preg_match_all('!(.*?)
!', $content, $matches);
var_dump($matches);
Example 3: php use curl
It is important to notice that when using curl to post form data and you use an array for CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS option, the post will be in multipart format
'John', 'surname'=>'Doe', 'age'=>36)
$defaults = array(
CURLOPT_URL => 'http://myremoteservice/',
CURLOPT_POST => true,
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $params,
);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($ch, ($options + $defaults));
?>
This produce the following post header:
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="name"
Jhon
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="surnname"
Doe
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="age"
36
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Setting CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS as follow produce a standard post header
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => http_build_query($params),
Which is:
name=John&surname=Doe&age=36
This caused me 2 days of debug while interacting with a java service which was sensible to this difference, while the equivalent one in php got both format without problem.