Perform a POST request using curl as a function, with arguments as an array

curl_get_post_url.php

<?php
/**
 * Example Usage
 */
$url = 'http://example.org/';

$vars = array(
  'name' => 'Radley',
  'awesome' => 1,
);

$result = curl_get_post_url( $url, $vars );

if ( $result ) {
  echo "Result: ";
  var_dump($result); // "Radley is awesome"
}else{
  echo "Error"; // Could set it up to return error number here in the future.
}

/**
 * END OF EXAMPLE
 */




/**
 * Get a POST response from a url
 */
function curl_get_post_url( $url, $data ) {
	$query = http_build_query( $data );
	
	$ch = curl_init();

	curl_setopt_array( $ch, array(
		CURLOPT_URL		=> $url,
		CURLOPT_POST		=> count($data),
		CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS	=> $query,
		CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER	=> true,
	));

	$result = curl_exec($ch);
	curl_close($ch);

	return trim($result);
}