Question

I need to send some data from my form in html to webservice. (For do this, i need to do the operation of POST)

I have seen research that I can transmit information using php cURL. But in all examples, i don’t view to send data to webservice, only to file php that print $_POST variable.

I have this webservice: http://192.168.1.1/fastfood/event/attendee (example)
And i try to send data in an array.

For example i try to send: attendee = array( 'name' => $_POST['name'] , 'lastname' => $_POST['lastname'] , 'address' => $_POST['address'] );

Then, the web service takes out the array data. ¿How to do this?

UPDATE 1:

This is my code that i’m doing now… But don’t work 🙁

$name = $_POST['name'];
$lastname = $_POST['lastname'];
$address = $_POST['address'];

$attendee = array(
    'name' => "$name",
    'lastname' => "$lastname",
    'address' => "$address"
);

$url_target = 'http://192.168.1.1/fastfood/event/attendee';
//$header = array('Content type: multipart/form-data');
$user = 'root';
$pass = '123';
$userpasswd = "$user:$pass";

$ch = curl_init($url_target);

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $userpasswd);
    //curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url_target);
    //curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, TRUE);
    //curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $attendee);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT, TRUE);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, TRUE);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
    $result = curl_exec($ch);

    $getInfo = curl_getinfo($ch);

curl_close($ch);

The variable $result return me a FALSE, and the variable $getInfo return me a http_code = 500, Content-Type = Null.

Reading the documentation of cURL when i send a data like a array, the content type should be a “multipart/form-data” but, also, don’t work for me.

Answer 1

// Here is the data we will be sending to the service
  $data = array(
    'name'     => $_POST['name'],
    'lastname' => $_POST['last_name'],
    'address'  => $_POST['address']
  );  


  $curl = curl_init('http://192.168.1.1/fastfood/event/attendee');


  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1); //Choosing the POST method
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://localhost/helloservice.php');  // Set the url path we want to call
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);  // Make it so the data coming back is put into a string
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $some_data);  // Insert the data

  // Send the request
  $result = curl_exec($curl);

  // Free up the resources $curl is using
  curl_close($curl);

  echo $result;

Written by Chad Lung at GiantFlyingSaucer