Doc #69644 [Com]: additional note for CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=69644&edit=1 ID: 69644 Comment by: pasindu@php.net Reported by: tjw at tjw dot org Summary: additional note for CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS Status: Open Type: Documentation Problem Package: Documentation problem Operating System: ALL PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: In PHP 7 CURLOPT_POST dose not have to be set, in CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS a string is treated as a query string and array will be converted http://lxr.php.net/xref/PHP_TRUNK/ext/curl/interface.c#2501 Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2015-05-15 21:00:30] tjw at tjw dot org Description: ------------ If curl_setopt() is used to set CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS with an array, it will not work unless CURLOPT_POST has been set to true first. This works: $parameters = array("test" => "testing"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $parameters); This posts and empty form: $parameters = array("test" => "testing"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $parameters); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE); However, this works: $parameters = "test=testing"; curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $parameters); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE); It would be very helpful if a note was added in the documentation for CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS that CURLOPT_POST must be set to true before passing an array or it will not be automatically converted to a query string. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=69644&edit=1