curl_post helper

curl_helper.php

<?php

if (!function_exists('curl_post'))
{
	function curl_post($url, array $post = NULL, array $options = array()) 
	{ 
	    $defaults = array( 
	        CURLOPT_POST => 1, 
	        CURLOPT_HEADER => 0, 
	        CURLOPT_URL => $url, 
	        CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT => 1, 
	        CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1, 
	        CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE => 1, 
	        CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 4, 
	        CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => http_build_query($post) 
	    ); 

	    $ch = curl_init(); 
	    curl_setopt_array($ch, ($options + $defaults)); 
	    if( ! $result = curl_exec($ch)) 
	    { 
	        trigger_error(curl_error($ch)); 
	    } 
	    curl_close($ch); 
	    return $result; 
	}
}

Usage:

<?php

$arr = array(
    'foo1' => 'bar1',
    'foo2' => 'bar2'
    'foo3' => 'bar3'
);

$url = 'http://example.com/api'
curl_post($url,$arr);