Change Output of PHP Script to use POST Method - php

Question

Bear with my inexperience here, but can anyone point me in the right direction for how I can change the PHP script below to output each variable that is parsed from the XML file (title, link, description, etc) as a POST method instead of just to an HTML page?
<?php
$html = "";
$url = "http://api.brightcove.com/services/library?command=search_videos&any=tag:SMGV&output=mrss&media_delivery=http&sort_by=CREATION_DATE:DESC&token= // this is where the API token goes";
$xml = simplexml_load_file($url);
$namespaces = $xml->getNamespaces(true); // get namespaces
for($i = 0; $i < 80; $i++){
$title = $xml->channel->item[$i]->video;
$link = $xml->channel->item[$i]->link;
$title = $xml->channel->item[$i]->title;
$pubDate = $xml->channel->item[$i]->pubDate;
$description = $xml->channel->item[$i]->description;
$titleid = $xml->channel->item[$i]->children($namespaces['bc'])->titleid;
$html .= "<h3>$title</h3>$description<p>$pubDate<p>$link<p>Video ID: $titleid<p>
<iframe width='480' height='270' src='http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid3742068445001?bckey=AQ~~,AAAABvaL8JE~,ufBHq_I6FnyLyOQ_A4z2-khuauywyA6P&bctid=$titleid&autoStart=false' frameborder='0'></iframe><hr/>";/* this embed code is from the youtube iframe embed code format but is actually using the embedded Ooyala player embedded on the Campus Insiders page. I replaced any specific guid (aka video ID) numbers with the "$guid" variable while keeping the Campus Insider Ooyala publisher ID, "eb3......fad" */
}
echo $html;
?>
#V.Radev Here's another PHP script using cURL that I think will work with the API I'm trying to send data to:
<?PHP
$url = 'http://api.brightcove.com/services/post';
//open connection
$ch = curl_init($url);
//set the url, number of POST vars, POST data
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, '$title,$descripton,$url' . stripslashes($_POST['$title,$description,$url']));
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
// Enable for Charles debugging
//curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_PROXY, '127.0.0.1:8888');
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
print $result;
?>
My question is, how can I pass the variables from my feed parsing script (title, description, URL) to this new script?
I have this code from Brightcove, can I just output the variables from my parser script and send to this PHP script so that the data goes to the API?
<?php
// This code example uses the PHP Media API wrapper
// For the PHP Media API wrapper, visit http://docs.brightcove.com/en/video-cloud/open-source/index.html
// Include the BCMAPI Wrapper
require('bc-mapi.php');
// Instantiate the class, passing it our Brightcove API tokens (read, then write)
$bc = new BCMAPI(
'[[READ_TOKEN]]',
'[[WRITE_TOKEN]]'
);
// Create an array of meta data from our form fields
$metaData = array(
'name' => $_POST['bcVideoName'],
'shortDescription' => $_POST['bcShortDescription']
);
// Move the file out of 'tmp', or rename
rename($_FILES['videoFile']['tmp_name'], '/tmp/' . $_FILES['videoFile']['name']);
$file = '/tmp/' . $_FILES['videoFile']['name'];
// Create a try/catch
try {
// Upload the video and save the video ID
$id = $bc->createMedia('video', $file, $metaData);
echo 'New video id: ';
echo $id;
} catch(Exception $error) {
// Handle our error
echo $error;
die();
}
?>

Answer 1

Post is a request method to access a specific page or resource. With echo you are sending data which means that you are responding. In this page you can only add response headers and access it with a request method such as post, get, put etc.
Edit for API request as mentiond in the comments:
$curl = curl_init('your api url');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $your_data_to_send);
$result_from_api = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);