Beginner Question: How To POST a url within code

Hi Everyone,

This seems to be a simple question. But I am new to JSON and I am working with PHP.
I have my json formatted string which i need to pass to gain access to an API but I do not want this in the URL bar...

I then need to dynamically manipulate that url to pass other data.

My question is, if i have a URL: www.example.com?username=something&password=somethingelse

how can I call that url to load my information when my page loads with index.php?

 

search for CURL on php.net

 

you can use CURL or php's function get_url_contents to fetch the url content into php variable

 

wow didnt know this before. so Curl fetches the url content.

 

which is why its called cURL

 

if you don't have curl you could exec the wget command with the correct URL.

 

This is very simple to do within P H P via cURL. Here is something i wrote up real quick for you.

$c = curl_init('http://www.example.com/index.php');
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);  
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "A useragent here" );
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "username=something&password=somethingelse");
$output = curl_exec($c); 

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You can then use the following code the echo the output:

echo $output

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I hope that helps