curl.php

	function _curl($url,$fields)
	{
		$fields_string = '';
		//url-ify the data for the POST
		foreach($fields as $key=>$value) { 
			$fields_string .= $key.'='.$value.'&';
		}
		rtrim($fields_string, '&');
		
		//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($fields));
		curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields_string);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

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

		//close connection
		curl_close($ch);		

		$result_parsed = json_decode($result,true);

    var_dump($result);
    //return $result;
	}

$postUrl  = 'http://www.domain.com/test/notexistingdomain/hello';
$postData = array(
'data1' => 'datavalue1',
'data2' => 'datavalue2',
'data3' => 'datavalue3',
);

$DataFromApi = _curl($postUrl,$postData);