Querying Anaf WS with php

AnafWSQuery.php

<?php

$anafEndpoint = "https://webservicesp.anaf.ro/PlatitorTvaRest/api/v3/ws/tva";
$data = '[{"cui":"", "data":"2018-04-16"}]';

$curl_option = [
    CURLOPT_URL => $anafEndpoint,
    CURLOPT_POST => TRUE,
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $data,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array('Content-Type: application/json'),
    CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => false
];

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($ch, $curl_option);

$result = curl_exec($ch);

if (!$result) {
    echo sprintf("Curl error: %s", curl_error($ch));   
}
?>