How to post data in php using curl and headers - php

Question

I am trying to use a payment gateway api using php and they said api request will post data using curl, my app is using php code and I don't know how to do that in php file... they provide a sample code, but when I tried to copy and paste the code in php file it shows syntax error. Please help me to do that in php. Link for the payment api that i am using is https://paycertify.com/docs/api/gateway/recurring-billing/create-a-subscription/
curl --request POST \
--url https://gateway-api.paycertify.com/api/subscriptions \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN' \
--form 'amount=1.00' \
--form 'description=Monthly tennis club signature' \
--form 'start_date=2018-09-07' \
--form 'end_date=2018-10-07' \
--form 'interval=day' \
--form 'card_number=4111111111111111' \
--form 'merchant_subscription_id=MY-ORDER' \
--form 'interval_count=1' \
--form 'card_expiry_month=01' \
--form 'card_expiry_year=2021' \
--form 'card_cvv=999' \
--form 'first_name=John' \
--form 'last_name=Doe' \
--form 'street_address_1=59 N Santa Cruz Avenue' \
--form 'street_address_2=Suite M' \
--form 'city=Los Gatos' \
--form 'state=CA' \
--form 'country=US' \
--form 'mobile_phone=[phone]' \
--form 'email=support#paycertify.com' \
--form 'merchant_transaction_id=my-order-id-0001' \
--form 'zip=95030'

Answer 1

This exemple is a shell command. If you want to send data to the api, you will need to use the curl php method.
Try something like this
$curlHandler = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curlHandler, [
CURLOPT_URL => 'https://gateway-api.paycertify.com/api/subscriptions',//url you want to call
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,//receive server reponse
CURLOPT_POST => true,//Explain you are using the post method
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array("Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN"),
/**
* An array of field you want to send
*/
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => [
'amount' => '1.00',
'description' => 'Monthly tennis club signature',
....
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curlHandler);
curl_close($curlHandler);
echo($response);