cURL & GET

[netfrugal]

Here's a curl script that sends data from a form. I'm new to using Curl, and want to understand it better. Am I sending data, with curl, in a POST method? Or can I vary between GET and POST?

I've looked at the manual: http://us.php.net/curl but I'm not quite seeing a direct answer to it.

Any clarification would be appreciated!

here's what I have made:

[code=php]$data = 
	'&e='.urlencode($_POST['email']).
	'&f='.urlencode($_POST['firstName']).
	'&l='.urlencode($_POST['lastName']).
	'&IP='.urlencode($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']).
	'&a1='.urlencode($_POST['address']).
	'&c='.urlencode($_POST['city']).
	'&sp='.urlencode($_POST['state']).
	'&pc='.urlencode($_POST['zip']).
	'&od='.urlencode(date('Y-m-d H:i:s')).
	'&pn='.urlencode($_POST['phone']);


$ch = curl_init('http://somewebsite.asp'); 

//set URL and other appropriate options 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);   
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, '1800');  

//Execute the request. 
$data_response = curl_exec($ch); 
$succeeded = curl_errno($ch) == 0 ? true : false;

echo $data.'<br>';
echo $data_response;[/code]

[NogDog]

The example you've included is using the post method, turned on by the curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); line, and then the following CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS line attaches the post data.

If you want to use the get method instead, all you need to do is delete those two lines (get method is the default), and then simply append your $data to the url:

$ch = curl_init('http://somewebsite.asp?'.$data);

Hope that helped, or is it still clear as mud?