Opposite method of file_get_content - php

Question

You know how in PHP there's a method called file_get_content that gets the content of the page for the provided url? Is there an opposite method for it? Like, for example, file_post_content, where you can post data to external websites? Just asking for educational purposes.

Answer 1

You can use without cURL but file_get_contents PHP this example:
$url = 'URL';
$data = array('field1' => 'value', 'field2' => 'value');
$options = array(
'http' => array(
'header' => "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n",
'method' => 'POST',
'content' => http_build_query($data),
)
);
$context = stream_context_create($options);
$result = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
var_dump($result);
See the PHP website: http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php#102575

Answer 2

Could write one:
<?php
function file_post_content($url, $data = array()){
// Collect URL. Optional Array of DATA ['name' => 'value']
// Return response from server or FALSE
if(empty($url)){
return false;
}
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
if(count($data)){
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($data));
}
// receive server response ...
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$svr_out = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
return $svr_out;
}
?>