On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Jesse Brede wrote:

> What is the proper way to use the Postfields function from curl in php?
>
> I have read that $POSTFIELDS needs to be an associative array. This has
> not worked for me.
> Such as
> $POSTFIELDS = array ( "login" => "login_name", "password" => "xxxxxx",
> "header" => "HF#%&=1324WER");

I think that makes the post a multipart one, and not a regular one. They're
not simply interchangable.

> Putting my post variables in one long string seems to be the only way to
> get this function to work correctly.
> such as
> $POSTFIELDS = "login=login_name&password=xxxxx&header=HF#%&=1324WER";

That's the way to do it, yes.

> This being said, I have post variables that oddly enough have both & and =
> symbols in them. Is there a php or curl function to make these variables
> function correctly. I think if I could get the associative array working
> everything would be fine. I have tried using single and double quotes.

You need to "url encode" the strings (before you concatenate them). All such
letters should be replaced with the url version. '&' for example I believe is
%26, etc.

I assume there's a function in PHP that does this for you.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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