How send post request with x www form urlencoded body in php?

$post_data="dispnumber=567567567&extension=6";
$url="http://xxxxxxxx.xxx/xx/xx";

I need to post this $post_data using cURL php with header application/x-www-form-urlencoded i am new for curl any one help this out.

asked Sep 20, 2013 at 9:32

Saravanan M PSaravanan M P

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answered Sep 20, 2013 at 9:36

Shakti PatelShakti Patel

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 $curl = curl_init();
 curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
            CURLOPT_URL => "http://example.com",
            CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
            CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
            CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
            CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
            CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
            CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
            CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "value1=111&value2=222",
            CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
                "cache-control: no-cache",
                "content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
            ),
        ));
 $response = curl_exec($curl);
 $err = curl_error($curl);

 curl_close($curl);

 if (!$err)
 {
      var_dump($response);
 }

answered May 5, 2017 at 13:34

Try something like:

$post_data="dispnumber=567567567&extension=6";
$url="http://xxxxxxxx.xxx/xx/xx";

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded'));   
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); 
$result = curl_exec($ch);

echo $result;

answered Sep 20, 2013 at 9:42

anupamanupam

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With application-x-www-form-urlencoded post in cURL, we should use http_build_query to generate URL-encode data and put them in CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.

Example

function post($url, $data, $headers)
{
    $curl = curl_init();
    curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
        CURLOPT_URL => $url,
        CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, // return the transfer as a string of the return value
        CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,   // The maximum number of seconds to allow cURL functions to execute.
        CURLOPT_POST => true,   // This line must place before CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS
        CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $data // Data that will send
    ));
    // Set Header
    if (!empty($headers)) {
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
    }
    $response = curl_exec($curl);
    $errno = curl_errno($curl);
    if ($errno) {
        return false;
    }
    curl_close($curl);
    return $response;
}

Use it

The following is an example of sending an array.

$arr = [
    "name" => "test",
    "password" => "mypasswd",
    "arr[0]" => 0,
    "arr[1]" => 1,
];
$data = http_build_query($arr);
$headers = ["User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.117 Safari/537.36"];
echo post("http://localhost/response.php", $data, $headers);

response.php

print_r($_REQUEST);
$contentType = $_SERVER["CONTENT_TYPE"];
print_r($contentType);

Output

Array
(
    [name] => test
    [password] => mypasswd
    [arr] => Array
        (
            [0] => 0
            [1] => 1
        )

)
application/x-www-form-urlencoded

The request header Content-ype is automatically set to application/x-www-form-urlencoded.

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