help with php5 and cURL

[mickey]

I am trying to post an array using cURL from one PHP page to another. I
can't figure out how to correctly post and read the array on the page
that actually receives it. Here is what I have...

$session = curl_init();

curl_setopt( $session, CURLOPT_URL,
"https://www.myswebsite. com/receiving.php" );
curl_setopt( $session, CURLOPT_HEADER, false );
curl_setopt( $session, CURLOPT_POST, true );
curl_setopt( $session, CURLOPT_POSTFIE LDS, $_POST['fields'] );
curl_setopt( $session, CURLOPT_RETURNT RANSFER, true );
curl_setopt( $session, CURLOPT_SSL_VER IFYPEER, false );
curl_setopt( $session, CURLOPT_USERPWD , $sslpassword );
curl_setopt( $session, CURLOPT_HTTPAUT H, CURLAUTH_BASIC );

$returned = curl_exec( $session );
curl_close( $session );
echo $returned;

On the receiving page this echos zero ...

$numFormFields = count( $_POST['fields'] );

[Andy Jeffries]

Hi Mickey,

Two things:

1) Check that you've got the syntax of this right:

curl_setopt( $session, CURLOPT_POSTFIE LDS, $_POST['fields'] );

If $_POST['fields'] currently contains an array, you probably want to do
something like this:

curl_setopt( $session, CURLOPT_POSTFIE LDS,
array("fields"= >$_POST['fields']));

Otherwise you aren't passing through a name the array can be referred to
using on the other side.

2) I don't know how PHP will handle you trying to pass an array (PHP
data structure) over HTTP. You may need to use the serialize/unserialize
functions on the data on the way in/out (respectively).

Cheers,
Andy
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