PHP Curl POST Request with Headers Example

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This post will give you example of php curl post request with headers example. In this article, we will implement a how to send headers in curl php. i explained simply step by step how to send headers in php curl. we will help you to give example of php curl post request header. Here, Creating a basic example of php curl post data header.

PHP cURL have set of curl function like curl_init(), curl_setopt(), curl_exec() etc. using cURL we will call post api with headers to getting json data and we can use their data in our project.

Here, i will give you very simple example of curl post request with headers with authentication example on bellow of simple curl request example:

Simple Example:

<?php
  
    /* API URL */
    $url = 'http://www.mysite.com/api';
       
    /* Init cURL resource */
    $ch = curl_init($url);
       
    /* Array Parameter Data */
    $data = ['name'=>'Hardik', 'email'=>'itsolutionstuff@gmail.com'];
       
    /* pass encoded JSON string to the POST fields */
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
       
    /* set the content type json */
    $headers = [];
    $headers[] = 'Content-Type:application/json';
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
       
    /* set return type json */
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
       
    /* execute request */
    $result = curl_exec($ch);
        
    /* close cURL resource */
    curl_close($ch);
  
>

Header Auth Example:

<?php
  
    /* API URL */
    $url = 'http://www.mysite.com/api';
         
    /* Init cURL resource */
    $ch = curl_init($url);
       
    /* Array Parameter Data */
    $data = ['name'=>'Hardik', 'email'=>'itsolutionstuff@gmail.com'];
       
    /* pass encoded JSON string to the POST fields */
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
        
    /* set the content type json */
    $headers = [
        'Content-Type:application/json',
        'App-Key: 123456',
        'App-Secret: 1233'];
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
       
    /* set return type json */
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
        
    /* execute request */
    $result = curl_exec($ch);
        
    /* close cURL resource */
    curl_close($ch);
  
>

Now you can check it

I hope it can help you...