cURL is used to send "POST" data from one web page to another behind the scenes.
If cURL is enabled on your server, it is fairly easy to setup. I had trouble finding a page that broke setting up a cURL connection down to its most simplest form by showing a cURL example, so I decided to post a page for it.
Example: cURL setup with PHP
<?php //set up a connection variable for the page you will post data to $curl_connection = curl_init('https://fundraising-matrix.com/matrix/leadsubmit.php'); //curl basic setup curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 30); curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"); curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); //$_POST variables to pass $post_items[] = 'firstname='.strip_tags($_POST['firstname']); $post_items[] = 'lastname='.strip_tags($_POST['lastname']); $post_items[] = 'item='.strip_tags($_POST['item_id']); //format the $post_items into a string $post_string = implode ('&', $post_items); //send the $_POST data to the new page curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_string); $result = curl_exec($curl_connection); curl_close($curl_connection); ?>
