print curl request php code example
Example 1: php curl print status
$url = 'http://www.example.com';
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,10);
$output = curl_exec($ch);
$httpcode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($ch);
echo 'HTTP code: ' . $httpcode;
Example 2: php curl get
PHP cURL GET Request
A GET request retrieves data from a server. This can be a website’s HTML, an API response or other resources.
<?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);
Example 3: curl in php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1,
CURLOPT_URL => 'http://testcURL.com',
CURLOPT_USERAGENT => 'Codular Sample cURL Request',
CURLOPT_POST => 1,
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => [
item1 => 'value',
item2 => 'value2'
]
]);
$resp = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
Example 4: 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
<?php
$params=['name'=>'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.