Question

I have this curl request below, which was successfully troubleshooted in another post. Right now, my PHP seems to work through this code without any errors, moves onto the next part of the IF statement and sends the confirmation email. It just doesn’t update the database as it should from the web service. I will have to email the creator of the web service if this does not work but I just want to be sure that the code is fairly solid before I do this. Any one have any ideas? Here is the code:

$url = 'http://127.0.0.1:85/AccountCreator.ashx';


$curl_post_data = array(
    'companyName' =>urlencode($companyName),
    'mainContact' =>urlencode($mainContact),
    'telephone1' =>urlencode($telephone1),
    'email' => urlencode($email),
    'contact2' => urlencode($contact2),
    'telephone2' => urlencode($telephone2),
    'email2' => urlencode($email2),
    'package' => urlencode($package)
    );

foreach($curl_post_data as $key=>$value) {$fields_string .=$key. '=' .$value.'&';
}
rtrim($fields_string, '&');
//die("Test: ".$fields_string);

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT, $url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, count($curl_post_data));
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields_string);

$result = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);

Answer 1

Firstly, what is the problem? It would be easier to troubleshoot it if you explained exactly what the failure in the code was. Secondly, there are a couple of odd things you are doing in this code:

I don’t see why you are doing

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, count($curl_post_data));

CURLOPT_POST requires a boolean (true/false) setting. You should set it to true.

Secondly, you don’t need to encode CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS manually. Make an array and let cURL deal with it internally:

$curl_post_data = array(
    'companyName' =>$companyName,
    'mainContact' =>$mainContact,
    'telephone1' =>$telephone),
    'email' => $email,
    'contact2' => $contact2,
    'telephone2' => $telephone2,
    'email2' => $email2,
    'package' => $package
);

These might not fix the problem, but they may help.