How to switch from POST to GET in PHP CURL

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Make sure that you’re putting your query string at the end of your URL when doing a GET request.

$qry_str = "?x=10&y=20";
$ch = curl_init();

// Set query data here with the URL
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://example.com/test.php' . $qry_str); 

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 3);
$content = trim(curl_exec($ch));
curl_close($ch);
print $content;

With a POST you pass the data via the CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS option instead
of passing it in the CURLOPT__URL.

$qry_str = "x=10&y=20";
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://example.com/test.php');  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 3);

// Set request method to POST
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

// Set query data here with CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $qry_str);

$content = trim(curl_exec($ch));
curl_close($ch);
print $content;

Note from the curl_setopt() docs for CURLOPT_HTTPGET (emphasis added):

[Set CURLOPT_HTTPGET equal to] TRUE to reset the HTTP request method to GET.
Since GET is the default, this is only necessary if the request method has been changed.

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