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Jared Whipple
Jared Whipple

Reputation: 1171

What is the LIBCURL equivalent to -d?

In LIBCURL for PHP what is the equivalent to a basic curl -d?

This is my basic CURL: I need to format it for LIBCURL in PHP:

curl -u username:password -H "Content-Type:application/json" -X POST -d '[{"phoneNumber":"12135551100","message":"Hello World!"}]' "https://api.example.com/v2/texts"

I have tried using CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION and CURLOPT_WRITEDATAbut I can't seem to get my request to work.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 374

Answers (2)

galimay
galimay

Reputation: 415

The option required is CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS. The specification is the same as the libcurl reference.

There are some PHP examples in the curl_setopt reference. The simplest way being the following example:

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "postvar1=value1&postvar2=value2");

Upvotes: 2

Jared Whipple
Jared Whipple

Reputation: 1171

My endpoint needed data in the form of an array so this worked.

function doPost($url, $user, $password, $params = array()) {
    $authentication = 'Authorization: Basic '.base64_encode("$user:$password");
    $http = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt($http, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
    curl_setopt($http, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
    curl_setopt($http, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($http, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($http, CURLOPT_POST, true);
    curl_setopt($http, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $params);
    curl_setopt($http, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
    'Content-Type: application/json', $authentication));
    return curl_exec($http);
}

My array formatted like this:

$params = '[{"phoneNumber":"' . $ToNumber . '","message":"' . $msg . '"}]';

Upvotes: 0

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