[SOLVED] CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS

[dtdetu]

hello i am trying to use curl with a auto poster script my problem is when setting options with

 

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'field1=value1&umessage=trying trying');

 

code. this code works but when i change the code to this one

 

$mymessage=file_get_contents("mymessage.txt");
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'field1=value1&umessage=$mymessage');

 

then it posts "$mymessage", not content of mymessage.txt , does anyone have a solution. thanks

[GingerRobot]

Variables inside single quotes are not evaluated, they are treated as literals. That is:

 

$foo = 'bar';
echo $foo ;// echos bar
echo "$foo"; //echos bar
echo '$foo';// echos $foo

 

Therefore, you either need to delimit your string with double quotes, or use concatenation. So either this:

 

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "field1=value1&umessage=$mymessage");

 

Or this:

 

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'field1=value1&umessage='.$mymessage);

[dtdetu]

thank you works now