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PHP Execute a HTTP POST Using PHP CURL

PHP Execute a HTTP POST Using PHP CURL

Today Discussed PHP Curl Post Means PHP Execute a HTTP POST Using PHP Curl.Well, there's a hurdle -- the information isn't going to be saved on the localhost database -- it needs to be stored in a remote database that I cannot connect directly to.

PHP Execute a HTTP POST Using PHP CURL
PHP Execute a HTTP POST Using PHP CURL

  1. User will submit the form, as usual.
  2. In the form processing PHP, I use cURL to execute a POST transmission to a PHP script on the customer's server.
  3. The remote script would do a MySQL INSERT query into the customer's private database.
This solution worked quite well so I thought I'd share it with you. Here's how you execute a POST using the PHP CURL library.


Curl Post Code Follows

//extract data from the post
//set POST variables
$url = 'http://domain.com/get-post.php';
$fields = array(
 'lname' => urlencode($_POST['last_name']),
 'fname' => urlencode($_POST['first_name']),
 'title' => urlencode($_POST['title']),
 
);

//url-ify the data for the POST
foreach($fields as $key=>$value) { $fields_string .= $key.'='.$value.'&'; }
rtrim($fields_string, '&');

//open connection
$ch = curl_init();

//set the url, number of POST vars, POST data
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST, count($fields));
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields_string);

//execute post
$result = curl_exec($ch);

//close connection
curl_close($ch);