Convert cURL Command Line to cURL PHP with URL Encoded - php

Question

I am trying to convert a command line API to PHP cURL
Here's command line php curl
curl --data-urlencode "type=5" --data-urlencode "url=https://example.com/test.torrent" --data-urlencode "comment=API test" --data-urlencode "website=https://example.com/" --data-urlencode "apikey=123456-asdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdf" --data-urlencode "send=true" https://www.source-site.com/get.php
This is what I am trying with PHP
<?php
ini_set('display_errors',1);
$arr=array(
'type' => 'category5',
'url' => 'https://example.com/test.torrent',
'website' => 'https://example.com',
'apikey' => '696c1a998ac8f13154-088605f-9b0',
'send' => 'true'
);
$data_string = http_build_query($arr);
$ch = curl_init('https://www.source-site.com/get.php'); // this url where my file will be uploaded
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_string);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_exec($ch);
echo curl_error($ch);
?>
Now the problem is, it does not upload the file nor display any errors the page is blank, what's wrong with my PHP codes?
I have updated my codes now I get the following error
error setting certificate verify locations: CAfile: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt CApath: none

Answer 1

I replicated your code and had my own script that echo'd the $_POST array. I curlopt_custom_request to CURLOPT_POST set to true and added CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION. I notice that your url has https as well which if your test site doesn't have a cert will cause this to fail you can try setting CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER to false for testing, but I didn't have much luck with that. So if that doesn't work maybe try http://yoursite.com.
<?php
ini_set('display_errors',1);
$arr=array(
'type' => 'category5',
'url' => 'https://example.com/test.torrent',
'website' => 'https://example.com',
'apikey' => '696c1a998ac8f13154-088605f-9b0',
'send' => 'true'
);
$data_string = http_build_query($arr);
echo $data_string;
$ch = curl_init('YOUR URL HERE'); // this url where my file will be uploaded
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_string);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded"));
$final = curl_exec($ch);
var_dump($final);
?>