Sending POST requests with PHP
August 28, 07 by Andrew VayanisI recently found myself writing a REST web service, which, in my opinion, is the easiest way to create a web service, for a project at work. Using XML.com’s How to Create a REST protocol as my Guide, I went to work. However, when I tried to create a service to update some data, I wasn’t sure how to send my data in a POST request using PHP. After some stumbling around, I found what I was looking for on Wez Furlong’s blog which led me to PHP’s documentation on HTTP and HTTPS wrappers.
The following is a code snippet from the HTTP and HTTPS documentation that shows how to easily send data using HTTP POST:
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