Passing POST values with cURL

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How do you pass   POST values to a page using cURL

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Ross has the right idea for POSTing the usual parameter/value format to a url.

I recently ran into a situation where I needed to POST some XML as Content-Type "text/xml" without any parameter pairs so here's how you do that:

$xml = '<?xml version="1.0"?><stuff><child>foo</child><child>bar</child></stuff>';
$httpRequest = curl_init();

curl_setopt($httpRequest, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($httpRequest, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Content-Type:  text/xml"));
curl_setopt($httpRequest, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($httpRequest, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);

curl_setopt($httpRequest, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($httpRequest, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml);

$returnHeader = curl_exec($httpRequest);
curl_close($httpRequest);

In my case, I needed to parse some values out of the HTTP response header so you may not necessarily need to set CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER or CURLOPT_HEADER.

User · Answer

Check out the cUrl PHP documentation page  It will help much more than just with example scripts

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lt  php     function executeCurl  arrOptions              mixCH   curl init             foreach   arrOptions as  strCurlOpt   gt   mixCurlOptValue                curl setopt  mixCH   strCurlOpt   mixCurlOptValue                       mixResponse   curl exec  mixCH           curl close  mixCH           return  mixResponse                If any HTTP authentication is needed       username    http-auth-username        password    http-auth-password         requestType    POST      This can be PUT or POST         This is a sample array  You can use  arrPostData     POST      arrPostData   array           key1     gt   value-1-for-k1y-1            key2     gt   value-2-for-key-2            key3     gt  array                   key31      gt   value-for-key-3-1                    key32      gt  array                       key321    gt   value-for-key321                                        key4     gt  array               key      gt   value                           You can set your post data      postData   http build query  arrPostData      Raw PHP array       postData   json encode  arrPostData      Only USE this when request JSON data        mixResponse   executeCurl array          CURLOPT URL   gt   http   whatever-your-request-url com xyz yii           CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER   gt  true          CURLOPT HTTPGET   gt  true          CURLOPT VERBOSE   gt  true          CURLOPT AUTOREFERER   gt  true          CURLOPT CUSTOMREQUEST   gt   requestType          CURLOPT POSTFIELDS    gt   postData          CURLOPT HTTPHEADER    gt  array               X-HTTP-Method-Override       requestType               Content-Type  application json      Only USE this when requesting JSON data                        If HTTP authentication is required  use the below lines          CURLOPT HTTPAUTH   gt  CURLAUTH BASIC          CURLOPT USERPWD    gt   username         password                  mixResponse contains your server response

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query string        if    POST         kv   array        foreach    POST as  key   gt   value             kv     stripslashes  key          stripslashes  value              query string   join   amp     kv      if   function exists  curl init         die  Sorry cURL is not installed         url    https   www abcd com servlet      ch   curl init     curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT URL   url   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT POST  count  kv    curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT POSTFIELDS   query string    curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT HEADER  FALSE   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  FALSE   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT FOLLOWLOCATION  TRUE     result   curl exec  ch    curl close  ch

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Check out this page which has an example of how to do it

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Another simple PHP example of using cURL    lt  php      ch   curl init                          Initiate cURL      url    http   www somesite com curl example php      Where you want to post data     curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT URL  url       curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT POST  true       Tell cURL you want to post something     curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT POSTFIELDS   var1 value1 amp var2 value2 amp var n value n       Define what you want to post     curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  true      Return the output in string format      output   curl exec   ch      Execute      curl close   ch      Close cURL handle      var dump  output      Show output   gt    Example found here  http   devzone co in post-data-using-curl-in-php-a-simple-example   Instead of using curl setopt you can use curl setopt array    http   php net manual en function curl-setopt-array php

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url  Your url      Specify your url  data  array  parameterkey1   gt value  parameterkey2   gt value      Add parameters in key value  ch   curl init       Initialize cURL curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT URL  url   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT POSTFIELDS  http build query  data    curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  true   curl exec  ch   curl close  ch

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Should work fine    data   array  name    gt   Ross    php master    gt  true       You can POST a file by prefixing with an    for  lt input type  file  gt  fields   data  file        home user world jpg     handle   curl init  url   curl setopt  handle  CURLOPT POST  true   curl setopt  handle  CURLOPT POSTFIELDS   data   curl exec  handle   curl close  handle    We have two options here  CURLOPT POST which turns HTTP POST on  and CURLOPT POSTFIELDS which contains an array of our post data to submit  This can be used to submit data to POST  lt form gt s     It is important to note that curl setopt  handle  CURLOPT POSTFIELDS   data   takes the  data in two formats  and that this determines how the post data will be encoded     data as an array    The data will be sent as multipart form-data which is not always accepted by the server    data   array  name    gt   Ross    php master    gt  true   curl setopt  handle  CURLOPT POSTFIELDS   data     data as url encoded string  The data will be sent as application x-www-form-urlencoded  which is the default encoding for submitted html form data    data   array  name    gt   Ross    php master    gt  true   curl setopt  handle  CURLOPT POSTFIELDS  http build query  data       I hope this will help others save their time   See      curl init curl setopt

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