php post request

1<form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>">
2  Name: <input type="text" name="fname">
3  <input type="submit">
4</form>
5<?php
6if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") {
7  // do logic
8  $name = $_POST['fname'];
9}
10?>

1$response = httpPost("http://mywebsite.com/update.php",
2	array("first_name"=>"Bob","last_name"=>"Dillon")
3);
4
5//using php curl (sudo apt-get install php-curl) 
6function httpPost($url, $data){
7    $curl = curl_init($url);
8    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
9    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($data));
10    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
11    $response = curl_exec($curl);
12    curl_close($curl);
13    return $response;
14}

1$url = 'http://server.com/path';
2$data = array('key1' => 'value1', 'key2' => 'value2');
3
4// use key 'http' even if you send the request to https://...
5$options = array(
6    'http' => array(
7        'header'  => "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n",
8        'method'  => 'POST',
9        'content' => http_build_query($data)
10    )
11);
12$context  = stream_context_create($options);
13$result = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
14if ($result === FALSE) { /* Handle error */ }
15
16var_dump($result);
17