Straight forward script to POST an array of fields to a given URL.
// First, set the URL you want to POST the data to $url = 'http://domain.com/script/'; // Specify the POST data $fields = array( 'field1' => "Value 1", 'field2' => "Value Two", 'field3' => "Value 3" ); // Next, erge the array data into a single sting foreach ($fields as $key => $value) { $fields_string .= $key . '=' . $value . '&'; } $fields_string = ""; rtrim($fields_string, '&'); // Open a CURL connection $ch = curl_init(); // Set the CURL options curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, count($fields)); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields_string); // Fire! $result = htmlspecialchars_decode(curl_exec($ch)); // Close your connection curl_close($ch);
And that’s it. The $result
variable will contain the response from the request. Depending how this is provided it might be plain text, JSON or pretty much anything else imaginable (over HTTP).
If it is a JSON string it can be converted to an object as follows:
$decode = json_decode($result);
Where $decode
is a PHP object.