How to send HTTPS posts using php

https, php

Solution

PHP/Curl will handle the https request just fine. What you may need to do, especially when going against a dev server, is turn CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER off. This is because a dev server may be self signed and fail the verify test.

$postfields = array('field1'=>'value1', 'field2'=>'value2');
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://foo.com');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
// Edit: prior variable $postFields should be $postfields;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postfields);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0); // On dev server only!
$result = curl_exec($ch);

Problem

I'm setting up a custom e-commerce solution, and the payment system I'm using requires me to send HTTPS POSTS. How can I do this using php (and CURL?), is it any different from sending http posts? UPDATE: Thanks for your replies, they've been very useful. I assume I will need to purchase an SSL certificate for this to work, and I will obviously do this for the final site, but is there any way for me to test this without buying one? Thanks, Nico

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