Question

The command line curl is:

curl https://sitea.com/v1 -X PUT \
         -d callback_url="https://siteb.com/event" \

I have

ch = curl_init();

$callback_url = " https://sitea.com/v1";
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $callback_url);

curl_exec($ch);

However, I am not sure about how to deal with the remaining options. What’s -X, -d etc? and how do I express that curl command via PHP (not command line)

Thanks everyone!

Answer 1

-X specifies the command (HTTP verb) to use. In this case, its PUT. The equivalent would be curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'PUT');

-d is the data (the payload) you want to send with the request. The equivalent would be curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'callback_url="https://siteb.com/event"');

As others have mentioned in the comments, the first place to check “what does this option do” is the manual page (called the man page because man is the command used to load the documentation). If you do not have the curl utility installed, there are lots of websites that provide online search of Linux manual pages. One is http://man.he.net/