Post multi-dimensional array using PHP Curl.

MultiDimArrayPost.class.php

/**
 * Post multi-dimensional array to a URL using PHP Curl.  
 * Usage:
 * $req = new MultiDimArrayPost();
 * $req->postToURL('http://xyz.com/post',$_POST);
 *
 * @package default
 * @author Mohsin Rasool
 *
 **/


class MultiDimArrayPost {

    /**
     * It posts the provided $data to $url as it was posted from an HTML form
     *
     * @return void
     * @author Mohsin Rasool
     * 
     **/

    public function postToURL($url, $data= $_POST)
    {
        $post = array();
        $this->http_build_query_for_curl($data, $post);
        $post['pardot'] =true;

        //open connection
        $ch = curl_init();

        //set the url, number of POST vars, POST data
        curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL, $url);
        curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST, count($post));
        curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($post));

        //execute post
        $result = curl_exec($ch);

        //close connection
        curl_close($ch);
    }


    /**
     * It recursively converts the multi dimension (deep) array to single dimension array as it was posted from an html form
     *
     * @return void
     * @author Mohsin Rasool
     * 
     **/

    private function http_build_query_for_curl( $arrays, &$new = array(), $prefix = null ) {

        if ( is_object( $arrays ) ) {
            $arrays = get_object_vars( $arrays );
        }

        foreach ( $arrays AS $key => $value ) {
            $k = isset( $prefix ) ? $prefix . '[' . $key . ']' : $key;
            if ( is_array( $value ) OR is_object( $value )  ) {
                $this->http_build_query_for_curl( $value, $new, $k );
            } else {
                $new[$k] = $value;
            }
        }
    }
}