[SOLVED] using curl with php

Issue

I have an sms android app that works remotely using a http server, It need to get a formed url request like this :

http://server.com:9090/sendsms?phone=123456789&text=foobar&pass=123456

When i type that url in the browser address bar and hit enter, the app sends the sms. I'm new to curl, and I dont know how to test it, here is my code so far:

  $phonenumber= '12321321321'
  $msgtext    = 'lorem ipsum'
  $pass       = '1234'

  $url = 'http://server.com:9090/sendsms?phone=' . urlencode($phonenumber) . '&text=' . urlencode($msgtext) . '&password=' . urlencode($pass);



  $curl = curl_init();
  curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
      CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1,
      CURLOPT_URL => $url
  ));

So my questions are, is the code correct? and how to test it?

Solution

Altough this is a simple GET, I cannot fully agree with hek2mgl. There are many situations, when you have to take care of timeouts, http response codes, etc. and this is what cURL is for.

This is a basic setup:

$handler = curl_init();
curl_setopt($handler, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($handler, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($handler, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
// curl_setopt($handler, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 10); // optional
// curl_setopt($handler, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10); // optional
$response = curl_exec($handler);
curl_close($handler);

Answered By - László Kenéz

Answer Checked By - Katrina (WPSolving Volunteer)