Data does not pause to API using curl - php

Question

The email does not pause to API
<?php
function post_to_url($url, $data) {
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($data));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$result = curl_exec ($ch);
echo $result;
curl_close ($ch);
}
$data = array( "email1" => "myemail#yahoo.com" );
post_to_url("http://api.payquicker.com/api/IsActiveAccount?email=", $data);
?>
echo $result; should be----> http://api.payquicker.com/api/IsActiveAccount?email=myemail#yahoo.com
but im only getting http://api.payquicker.com/api/IsActiveAccount?email=

Answer 1

echo "<p><strong>SEND INVITATION</strong></p></BR>";
$dataw = array(
"authorizedKey" => "xxx-xxxx-xxx",
"senderEmail" => "senderemail#yahoo.com",
"recipientEmail" => "myemail#yahoo.com"
);
$url_send ="https://api.payquicker.com/api/SendInvitation?authorizedKey=xxx-xxxx-xxx";
$str_data = json_encode($dataw);
function send_invitation($url, $post_data){
$url_send =$url;
$ch = curl_init($url_send);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json',
'Content-Length: ' . strlen($post_data))
);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
//$status = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($ch);
return $result;
}
echo "RESULT :" . send_invitation($url_send, $str_data);