How to send HTTPS posts using php

To send an HTTPS POST request using PHP, you can use the built-in stream context functions or the curl extension. Here is an example using file_get_contents() with a stream context:

Example of sending HTTPS posts using php

<?php

$url = 'https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts';
$data = ['key1' => 'value1', 'key2' => 'value2'];

$options = [
  'http' => [
    'header' => "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n",
    'method' => 'POST',
    'content' => http_build_query($data),
  ],
];
$context = stream_context_create($options);
$result = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
if ($result === false) {
  /* Handle error */
}

var_dump(json_decode($result, true));

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Note: The allow_url_fopen directive must be enabled in php.ini for this method to work.

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Alternatively, you can use the curl extension to post the data.

Example of sending HTTPS posts using PHP cURL

<?php

$url = 'https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts';
$data = ['key1' => 'value1', 'key2' => 'value2'];

$curl = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($data));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2);
$result = curl_exec($curl);
if ($result === false) {
  /* Handle error: curl_error($curl) */
}
curl_close($curl);

var_dump(json_decode($result, true));

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Both examples above will send a POST request to the specified URL with the specified data.