最简单的是以application/json的形式发送数据。这将接受一个数组作为输入，并正确地将其编码为json字符串:

$data = array(
    'field1' => 'field1value',
    'field2' => 'field2value',
)

$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($data));

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
    'Content-Type:application/json',
));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$resultStr = curl_exec($ch);
return json_decode($resultStr, true);

程序上的

// set post fields
$post = [
    'username' => 'user1',
    'password' => 'passuser1',
    'gender'   => 1,
];

$ch = curl_init('http://www.example.com');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);

// execute!
$response = curl_exec($ch);

// close the connection, release resources used
curl_close($ch);

// do anything you want with your response
var_dump($response);

面向对象的

<?php

// mutatis mutandis
namespace MyApp\Http;

class CurlPost
{
    private $url;
    private $options;
           
    /**
     * @param string $url     Request URL
     * @param array  $options cURL options
     */
    public function __construct($url, array $options = [])
    {
        $this->url = $url;
        $this->options = $options;
    }

    /**
     * Get the response
     * @return string
     * @throws \RuntimeException On cURL error
     */
    public function __invoke(array $post)
    {
        $ch = \curl_init($this->url);
        
        foreach ($this->options as $key => $val) {
            \curl_setopt($ch, $key, $val);
        }

        \curl_setopt($ch, \CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
        \curl_setopt($ch, \CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);

        $response = \curl_exec($ch);
        $error    = \curl_error($ch);
        $errno    = \curl_errno($ch);
        
        if (\is_resource($ch)) {
            \curl_close($ch);
        }

        if (0 !== $errno) {
            throw new \RuntimeException($error, $errno);
        }
        
        return $response;
    }
}

使用

// create curl object
$curl = new \MyApp\Http\CurlPost('http://www.example.com');

try {
    // execute the request
    echo $curl([
        'username' => 'user1',
        'password' => 'passuser1',
        'gender'   => 1,
    ]);
} catch (\RuntimeException $ex) {
    // catch errors
    die(sprintf('Http error %s with code %d', $ex->getMessage(), $ex->getCode()));
}

旁注:最好是使用getResponse()方法创建某种名为AdapterInterface的接口，并让上面的类实现它。然后，您总是可以将这个实现与您喜欢的另一个适配器交换，而不会对应用程序产生任何副作用。

使用HTTPS /加密流量

在Windows操作系统下，PHP中的cURL通常会有问题。在尝试连接到受https保护的端点时，您将得到一个错误，告诉您证书验证失败。

大多数人在这里做的是告诉cURL库简单地忽略证书错误并继续(curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);)。因为这将使你的代码正常工作，你引入了巨大的安全漏洞，并使恶意用户能够对你的应用程序执行各种攻击，如Man In The Middle攻击或类似的攻击。

永远，永远不要那样做。相反，你只需要修改你的PHP .ini，并告诉PHP你的CA证书文件在哪里，让它正确地验证证书:

; modify the absolute path to the cacert.pem file
curl.cainfo=c:\php\cacert.pem

最新的音乐会。pem可以从互联网上下载，也可以从您喜欢的浏览器中提取。当更改任何php.ini相关设置时，记得重新启动web服务器。

可以通过以下方式轻松到达:

<?php

$post = [
    'username' => 'user1',
    'password' => 'passuser1',
    'gender'   => 1,
];
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.domain.com');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($post));
$response = curl_exec($ch);
var_export($response);

curlPost('google.com', [
    'username' => 'admin',
    'password' => '12345',
]);


function curlPost($url, $data) {
    $ch = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
    $response = curl_exec($ch);
    $error = curl_error($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    if ($error !== '') {
        throw new \Exception($error);
    }

    return $response;
}

一个使用php curl_exec来做一个HTTP post的实例:

把它放在一个名为foobar.php的文件中:

<?php
  $ch = curl_init();
  $skipper = "luxury assault recreational vehicle";
  $fields = array( 'penguins'=>$skipper, 'bestpony'=>'rainbowdash');
  $postvars = '';
  foreach($fields as $key=>$value) {
    $postvars .= $key . "=" . $value . "&";
  }
  $url = "http://www.google.com";
  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST, 1);                //0 for a get request
  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$postvars);
  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT ,3);
  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 20);
  $response = curl_exec($ch);
  print "curl response is:" . $response;
  curl_close ($ch);
?>

然后用php foobar.php命令运行它，它会将这样的输出转储到屏幕上:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>Title</title>

<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="0">
<body>
  A mountain of content...
</body>
</html>

因此，您执行了一个PHP POST到www.google.com，并向其发送了一些数据。

如果服务器被编程为读入post变量，它可以基于此决定做一些不同的事情。

Curl Post +错误处理+设置头[感谢@mantas-d]:

function curlPost($url, $data=NULL, $headers = NULL) {
    $ch = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

    if(!empty($data)){
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
    }

    if (!empty($headers)) {
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
    }

    $response = curl_exec($ch);

    if (curl_error($ch)) {
        trigger_error('Curl Error:' . curl_error($ch));
    }

    curl_close($ch);
    return $response;
}


curlPost('google.com', [
    'username' => 'admin',
    'password' => '12345',
]);