POST headers in file_get_contents

PHP
1 
// Create a stream
$opts = array(
  'http'=>array(
    'method'=>"POST",
    'header'=>"Accept-language: en\\r\
" .
              "Cookie: foo=bar\\r\
"
  )
);

$context = stream_context_create($opts);

// Open the file using the HTTP headers set above
$file = file_get_contents('http://www.example.com/', false, $context);

The above code shows how to put headers in a file_get_contents, but I’m not sure how to include the POST field values. Anyone know how it works?

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There’s a good example in the manual:


<?php
$data = array ('foo' => 'bar', 'bar' => 'baz');
$data = http_build_query($data);

$context_options = array (
        'http' => array (
            'method' => 'POST',
            'header'=> "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\\r\
"
                . "Content-Length: " . strlen($data) . "\\r\
",
            'content' => $data
            )
        );

$context = context_create_stream($context_options)
$fp = fopen('https://url', 'r', false, $context);
?>

Where $data is the POST data to send to the server.

Any particular reason you’re not using cURL btw? It’s lot easier and more readable than working with streams IMO.

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I’m not sure how to use curl well and file_get_contents is so easy. Thanks for the info Scallio!