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How can I send POST data to a URL in PHP (without a form)?
I'm going to use it for sending a variable to complete and submit a form.
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If you're looking to post data to a URL from PHP code itself (without using an html form) it can be done with curl. It will look like this: $url = 'http://www.someurl.com'; $myvars = 'myvar1=' . $myvar1 .
POST request in itself means sending information in the body. I found a fairly simple way to do this. Use Postman by Google, which allows you to specify the content-type (a header field) as application/json and then provide name-value pairs as parameters.
You could use a button instead of an anchor and just style the button to look like a link. That way you could have your values in hidden fields inside the same form to be sent via POST. In addition to what Ben said, you can also let the link be a dummy and have it execute a javascript that submits a hidden form.
PHP $_POST is a PHP super global variable which is used to collect form data after submitting an HTML form with method="post". $_POST is also widely used to pass variables. The example below shows a form with an input field and a submit button.
If you're looking to post data to a URL from PHP code itself (without using an html form) it can be done with curl. It will look like this:
$url = 'http://www.someurl.com'; $myvars = 'myvar1=' . $myvar1 . '&myvar2=' . $myvar2; $ch = curl_init( $url ); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $myvars); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); $response = curl_exec( $ch ); This will send the post variables to the specified url, and what the page returns will be in $response.
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