Question

I have this page that I’m going a CURL POSTing some info to another site of mine, but I have a error and I can’t find the cause.

The error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/aaran/public_html/tests/will/1.php on line 13

(that’s the line with the CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS on).

Here’s the URL to see the script: http://hm.vc/tests/will/1.php

The script:

<?php
foreach($_GET as $key => $value){
    $input[$key] = urldecode(strip_tags($value));
}

$secureurl = "http://hm.vc/tests/will/2.php";

$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $secureurl);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $input);
                
$hello = curl_exec($curl);

curl_close($curl);


echo "Hi " . $input['name'] . ", Thanks for blah blah blah blah";
?>

Answer 1

Since I don’t know what data you’re using in the $_GET array, I can only guess, but as mentioned already, do a print_r($input) after creating it to see exactly what data you’re passing.

It seems that using an array for CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS requires that all values be scalar. If one of your $_GET variables is an array, you might be running into a problem. See the comments at http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php, specifically 28-Jul-2010, which states:

Be careful when setting the CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS setting using an array. The array used to set the POST fields must only contain scalar values. Multidimentional arrays or objects lacking a __toString implementation will cause Curl to error.

If there is a need to send non-scalar values using a POST request, consider serializing them before transmission.

Could that be it?