Question

I am trying to debug this, but I’ve had no luck. Am I sending the POST data correctly?

if (isset($_POST['chrisBox'])) {

$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.associates.com/send-email-orders.php");
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $_POST['chrisBox']);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, TRUE);
$ex = curl_exec($curl);
echo 'email';
$email = true;

}

Answer 1

CURLOPT_POSTFILEDS requires an urlencoded string or an array as param. Read PHP Manual curl_setopt. Have changed your example, now it uses an urlencoded string.

if (isset($_POST['chrisBox'])) {

    $curl = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.associates.com/send-email-orders.php");
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'chrisBox=' . urlencode($_POST['chrisBox']));
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, FALSE);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, FALSE);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, TRUE);
    $ex = curl_exec($curl);
    echo 'email';
    $email = true;
}