Php CURL Post not working even with curl enabled - php

Question

I know that there are many same questions, and I have tries the solution from many of them but still I am unable to figure this out.
I am trying to send a curl post from one server to another like this
$array = array("businessname" => "Illusion Softwares");
# try hitting the Tracking via CURL
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.mywebsite.com/testCurl.php");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, count($array));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($array));
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $result;
This is what I have on the testCurl.php on the server where I am posting
echo $_REQUEST['businessname'];
exit;
When I run the page it keeps on loading and loading and loading with a time out error message at last.
I have enabled curl on both the servers.
What am I missing ??

Answer 1

add this line,
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.mywebsite.com/testCurl.php");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array("businessname" => "Illusion Softwares"));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $result;

Answer 2

try this
$array = array("businessname" => "Illusion Softwares");
$headers = array(
"Content-type: text/xml",
"Content-length: " . strlen($array),
"Connection: close",
);
# try hitting the Tracking via CURL
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.mywebsite.com/testCurl.php");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 4000);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $array);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
curl_error($ch);
return FALSE;
} else {
curl_close($ch);
return TRUE;

Answer 3

This curl options setup will get you the info you need to find out what went wrong
You may need curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR,true);
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING,"");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILETIME, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 100);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,100);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR,true);
Then you need to check for error, if no error then look at the Request and Response Headers. Below I get the Response header and the Request Header is in $info.
$data = curl_exec($ch);
if (curl_errno($ch)){
$data .= 'Retreive Base Page Error: ' . curl_error($ch);
echo $data;
}
else {
$skip = intval(curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE));
$responseHeader = substr($data,0,$skip);
$data= substr($data,$skip);
$info = curl_getinfo($ch);
$info = var_export($info,true);
}
echo $responseHeader . $info . $data ;
If you get an Error is is likely a problem with the request.
To customize your request here is an example:
$request = array();
$request[] = 'Host: xxxxxxx';
$request[] = 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:39.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/39.0';
$request[] = 'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8';
$request[] = 'Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5';
$request[] = 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate';
$request[] = 'DNT: 1';
$request[] = 'Cookie: xxxx
$request[] = 'Connection: keep-alive';
$request[] = 'Pragma: no-cache';
Then include:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $request);