getting Bad Request during opening a querystring file in CURL - php

Question

$URL:https://demo.firstach.com/https/TransRequest.asp?Login_ID=someit&Transaction_Key=somekey&Customer_ID=23&Customer_Name=Muhammad Naeem&Customer_Address=Address&Customer_City=city&Customer_State=HI&Customer_Zip=54000&Customer_Phone=--&Customer_Bank_ID=111111118&Customer_Bank_Account=12345678901234567890&Account_Type=Business Checking&Transaction_Type=Debit&Frequency=Once&Number_of_Payments=1&Effective_Date=12%2F05%2F2010&Amount_per_Transaction=10.00&Check_No=&Memo=&SECCType=WEB
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url); // set url to post to
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1); // return into a variable
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 0); // times out after Ns
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
$result = curl_exec($ch); // run the whole process
print_r($result);
curl_close($ch);
i also used file_get_conent and fopen but all are returning me BAD REQUEST error,
please help me out
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http://www.uqwibble.com/Phase-2/ach.php

Answer 1

Well assumign the code you posted is accurate then this line is the issue:
$URL:https://demo.firstach.com/https/TransRequest.asp?Login_ID=someit&Transaction_Key=somekey&Customer_ID=23&Customer_Name=Muhammad Naeem&Customer_Address=Address&Customer_City=city&Customer_State=HI&Customer_Zip=54000&Customer_Phone=--&Customer_Bank_ID=111111118&Customer_Bank_Account=12345678901234567890&Account_Type=Business Checking&Transaction_Type=Debit&Frequency=Once&Number_of_Payments=1&Effective_Date=12%2F05%2F2010&Amount_per_Transaction=10.00&Check_No=&Memo=&SECCType=WEB
here it looks liek you attemtp to define $URL but when you use it with cURL you are referencing $url. The varibales are case sensitive. Secondly you have $URL: which is not valid you want to use $url =.
Addiitonally i would encode the params like this:
$baseurl = 'https://demo.firstach.com/https/TransRequest.asp';
$params = array(
'Login_ID' => 'someit',
'Transaction_Key' => 'somekey',
'Customer_ID'= => 23,
'Customer_Name' => 'Muhammad Naeem',
'Customer_Address' => 'Address',
'Customer_City' => 'city',
'Customer_State' => 'HI',
'Customer_Zip' => '54000',
'Customer_Phone' => '--',
'Customer_Bank_ID' => '111111118'
'Customer_Bank_Account' => '12345678901234567890'
'Account_Type' => 'Business Checking'
'Transaction_Type' => 'Debit'
'Frequency' => 'Once'
'Number_of_Payments' => 1,
'Effective_Date'=> '12/05/2010',
'Amount_per_Transaction' => '10.00',
'Check_No'=> '',
'Memo'=> '',
'SECCType' => 'WEB'
);
$url = sprintf('%s?%s', $baseurl, http_build_query($params));
That way http_build_query will take care of all your url encoding and you can work with an array before hand so its easy to see whats going on and add/remove/change paramters. Alternatively if its a post request you could jsut use:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $params);
which will take care of all the parameter encoding and what not directly from the array this way they dont need to be appended manually to the $url.