php curl: I need a simple post request and retrival of page example

Question

I would like to know how to send a post request in curl and get the response page.

Answer 1

Check out my code in this post

https://stackoverflow.com/a/56027033/6733212

<?php
if (!function_exists('curl_version')) {
    exit("Enable cURL in PHP");
}

$url = "https://www.google.com/";

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
    CURLOPT_URL => $url,
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
    CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
    CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
    CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "",
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
        "Accept: */*",
        "Cache-Control: no-cache",
        "Connection: keep-alive",
        "Host: " . url($url),
        "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.103 Safari/537.36",
        "accept-encoding: gzip, deflate",
        "cache-control: no-cache",
    ),
));

function url($url)
{
    $result = parse_url($url);
    return $result['host'];
}
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
    echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
    echo "<textarea>" . $response . "</textarea>";

}

http://codepad.org/YE6fyzCA

Answer 2

try the one in the comments: http://php.net/manual/en/curl.examples-basic.php

(but add curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1) to make it a post instead of get)

or this example: http://php.dzone.com/news/execute-http-post-using-php-cu