Should work fine.
$data = array('name' => 'Ross', 'php_master' => true);
// You can POST a file by prefixing with an @ (for <input type="file"> 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($handle)
We have two options here, CURLOPT_POST
which turns HTTP POST on, and CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS
which contains an array of our post data to submit. This can be used to submit data to POST
<form>
s.
It is important to note that curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
takes the $data in two formats, and that this determines how the post data will be encoded.
-
$data
as anarray()
: The data will be sent asmultipart/form-data
which is not always accepted by the server.$data = array('name' => 'Ross', 'php_master' => true); curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
-
$data
as url encoded string: The data will be sent asapplication/x-www-form-urlencoded
, which is the default encoding for submitted html form data.$data = array('name' => 'Ross', 'php_master' => true); curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($data));
I hope this will help others save their time.
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