How to send a POST request in PHP?

2 years ago
Jackson Davis
1 minute

You can send a POST request in PHP using either the curl or file_get_contents function.

Here is an example code for sending a POST request using curl:

$url = 'http://example.com/post_endpoint';
$data = array('key1' => 'value1', 'key2' => 'value2');

$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

$response = curl_exec($ch);

if(curl_errno($ch)){
    echo 'Curl error: ' . curl_error($ch);
}

curl_close($ch);

echo $response;

Here is an example code for sending a POST request using file_get_contents:

$url = 'http://example.com/post_endpoint';
$data = array('key1' => 'value1', 'key2' => 'value2');

$options = array(
    'http' => array(
        'method'  => 'POST',
        'header'  => 'Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
        'content' => http_build_query($data)
    )
);

$context  = stream_context_create($options);
$response = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);

echo $response;

In the code example above, the $url variable represents the target URL, while the $data variable represents the data for a POST request. Use either the curl function or file_get_contents function to send the data to the target URL and retrieve the resulting data.

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