Convert command line cURL to PHP cURL (with authentication)

Question

I want to convert command line cURL to PHP cURL in order to have better control.

Note it is included authentication with MYUSER and MYTOKEN.

Linux server is running Apache 2 and PHP 7.2.

curl -u 'MYUSER:MYTOKEN' 'https://example.com' -X POST --data '{"domainNames":["example.org","site2.com"]}'

What PHP code would you use to obtain the same functionality?

(Of course, one could find better duplicates with a bit more search effort.) — mario, Jan 21 '19 at 18:17

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 21 '19 at 18:05

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I haven't used PHP cURL, but I have done stuff using PHP exec. WARNING this is not completely recommended. But here is what I think you can be able to do:

<?php
   echo exec('curl -u \'MYUSER:MYTOKEN\' \'https://example.com\' -X POST --data \'{"domainNames":["example.org","site2.com"]}\'');
?>

More advanced examples can be found here: http://php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php

Along with this which is what you might actually be looking for: http://php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php

answered Jan 21 '19 at 18:05

Riz-waan

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(If you use double quotes for the encapsulation you don't need to escape the single quotes) – user3783243 Jan 21 '19 at 18:15
@user3783243 I tried that but `{"domainNames":["example.org","site2.com"]}` has double quotes then I would have to escape that right? – Riz-waan Jan 21 '19 at 18:22
Yes, or looks like that is JSON so maybe, put it into an array and do `json_encode`. – user3783243 Jan 21 '19 at 18:33

Convert command line cURL to PHP cURL (with authentication)

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