Question

I need to do a post to a url which need to be authenticated first, in C#, i can do this

    HttpWebRequest myRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
    myRequest.Method = "POST";
    myRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
    myRequest.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(username, password);
    myRequest.PreAuthenticate = true;

    Stream newStream = myRequest.GetRequestStream();
    newStream.Close();

    // Get response
    try
    {
        HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)myRequest.GetResponse();
        return response.StatusDescription;

        // some other code 
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        return ex.Message;
    }

how to do this in php?

Answer 1

An example using cURL:

<?php
$url = "http://example.com/";
$username = 'user';
$password = 'pass';
// create a new cURL resource
$myRequest = curl_init($url);

// do a POST request, using application/x-www-form-urlencoded type
curl_setopt($myRequest, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
// credentials
curl_setopt($myRequest, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");
// returns the response instead of displaying it
curl_setopt($myRequest, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

// do request, the response text is available in $response
$response = curl_exec($myRequest);
// status code, for example, 200
$statusCode = curl_getinfo($myRequest, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

// close cURL resource, and free up system resources
curl_close($myRequest);
?>