php_http_post_function.md

run a http post request with PHP

• create a new file with code below:

<?php
function httpPost($url, $data)
{
    $curl = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($data));
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
        'Authorization' => 'someAuthorization',
        'x-api-key' => 'somekey',
        'Content-Type' => 'application/json'
    ]);
    $response = curl_exec($curl);
    curl_close($curl);
    return $response;
}

      $response = httpPost('https://url', []);
echo $response;

• go to the path of this file by terminal
• run php yourfilename.php