cURL question

[sixseven]

Hi there,

 

I have a simple form online set up to email contact info and and some selections to an inbox. Simple enough. I now want the back end php code that emails me that info to also send my email marketing account the contact information. I was told to look into cURL, which I have been, and can't seem to figure it out.

 

I get all the field names and place them into variables. I was given the string in the variable $url to use in order to send the info to our email lists. I tried using the code below but it didn't work. I'm having a hard time understanding how to use cURL and was curious if anyone could shed some light.

 

Many thanks to anyone with answers.

 

 

$EmailFrom = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['fields_email'])); 
$FirstName = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['fields_fname'])); 
$LastName = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['fields_lname'])); 
$Street1 = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['fields_address1'])); 
$Street2 = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['fields_address2'])); 
$City = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['fields_city'])); 
$State = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['fields_state']));
$Zip = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['fields_zip']));  
$Country = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['fields_country'])); 


$url = "https://app.email.com/icp/signup.php?fields_email&fields_fname&fields_lname&fields_address1&fields_address2&fields_city&fields_state&fields_zip&fields_country&listid=XXXXXX&specialid:XXXXXX=SCCG&clientid=XXXXXX&formid=XXXX&reallistid=1&doubleopt=0&redirect=http://www.email.com/www/signup/thanks.html&errorredirect=http://www.email.com/www/signup/error.html";

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);

$result = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);

[fa11en]

Hello!

 

Try this:

<?php

$some_var = trim( stripslashes( $_POST['some_var'] ) );
$some_var2 = trim ( stripslashes( $_POST['some_var2'] ) );

$url = "https://https.host.com/app.php?some_var={$some_var}&some_var2={$some_var2}";

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); // to return result into var

/* !!!IMPORTANT!!! do not verify ssl sertificate */
curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0); 
curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);

/**
to send POST request:

curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "some_var={$some_var}&some_var2={$some_var2}"); // POST data

*/

$result = curl_exec ($curl);

echo htmlspecialchars($result); // Display result
?>