PHP Curl with --data flag? - php

Question

Can someone write a PHP script that reproduces the functionality of this linux shell command?
curl -X POST -u "USERNAME:PASS" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{"aps": {"alert": "this is a message"}}' \
https://mywebsite.com/push/service/
I think I almost got it in my code, but I'm not sure how to handle the --data attribute.
Here's what my code looks like so far:
$headers = array();
$headers[] = "Content-Type: application/json";
$body = '{"aps":{"alert":"this is a message"}}';
$ch = curl_init();
// Set the cURL options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://mywebsite.com/push/service/");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "USERNAME:PASSWORD");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $body);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
// Execute post
$result = curl_exec($ch);
// Close connection
curl_close($ch);
print_r($result);

Answer 1

example in:
http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/articles/using_cURL.html
curl https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin \
--data-urlencode Email=brad.gushue#example.com --data-urlencode Passwd=new+foundland \
-d accountType=GOOGLE \
-d source=Google-cURL-Example \
-d service=lh2

Answer 2

A general rule: use the "--libcurl example.c" option to get curl to generate source code for a C program that would use libcurl. The API is very similar to the PHP/CURL one as you will see and you should then quickly realize that --data translates to CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.
Oh, and you'll note that the -X usage is completely superfluous! ;-)