cURL POST with SSL and AUTH to Laravel PHP API - php

Question

I have been writing a RESTful API for my Laravel application.
I can submit data using cURL in Terminal with the following line;
curl -i --user admin#admin.com:qwertyuiop -d "data=somedata" https://www.xxxxxxxxxxxxx.co.uk/app/api/v1/clients
but when i try and do the same in cURL using PHP it gives me a 403 forbidden error.
$url = "https://www.xxxxxxxxxx.co.uk/app/api/v1/clients";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "admin#admin.com:qwertyuiop");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "data=mydata");
$output = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
print_r($output);
Any ideas what i'm missing from my PHP cURL script?
Thanks

Answer 1

It's been almost 6 years since this question asked. But I'm sure this answer will solve your and probably another problem with this. This code also solved my problem.
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
CURLOPT_URL => "https://example.com",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30000,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
// Set Here Your Requested Headers
'Content-Type: application/json',
),
));
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
dd($response); //this line is my custom code
}
As explained in this amazing website, where I found this code about
Laravel POST using cURL