CURL method to make POST request

gistfile1.php

<?php

$url = 'http://localhost/tests/test_post'; # URL for the POST request

$request = curl_init($url);
$post_options = array(
    CURLOPT_POST => 1, # signifies it is a POST request
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $data, # $data is the data that you want to POST
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true # required if you want to capture the response data as a string instead of just printing to the console
);
curl_setopt_array($request, $post_options);
$response = curl_exec($request);
curl_close($request);

if ($response === false) {
    print "Could not make successful request\n";
} else {
    $response = json_decode($response);
    # $response is the response from the web-service
}

?>