PHP POST curl terminal command in PHP script
I've found at the StackOverflow answer here exactly how I want to post data to another web url.
However, I want this command to be executed in my php web script, not from the terminal. From looking at the curl documentation, I think it should be something along the lines of:
<?php
$url = "http://myurl.com";
$myjson = "{"column1":"1","colum2":"2","column3":"3","column4":"4","column5":"5","column6":"6"}";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $myjson);
curl_close($ch);
?>
What is the best way to do that?
The current terminal command that is working is:
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"column1":"1","colum2":"2","column3":"3","column4":"4","column5":"5","column6":"6"}' https://myurl.com
There are two problems:
$myjson . Read the difference between single and double quoted strings in PHP. curl_exec() This should move you in the right direction:
<?php
$url = 'http://myurl.com';
$myjson = '{"column1":"1","colum2":"2","column3":"3","column4":"4","column5":"5","column6":"6"}';
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $myjson);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);