$headers[] = "Authorization: Basic xxx";
$headers[] = "Accept: text/xml";
$post = array("name" => "Some name",
"roll" => "Some roll"
);
$result = CurlExecutor::execute("...com/api/test", "POST", $post, null, $headers);
CurlExecutor::prettyPrint($result);
<?php class CurlExecutor { static function execute($url, $method = "GET", $posts = null, $gets = null, $headers = null, Closure $closure = null) { $ch = curl_init(); if ($gets != null) { $url .= "?" . (is_array($gets) ? self::makeRawQuery($gets) : $gets); } curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); if ($posts != null) { curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, is_array($posts) ? self::makeRawQuery($posts) : $posts); } if ($method == "POST") { curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true); } else if ($method == "HEAD") { curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true); } else if ($method == "PUT" || $method == "BATCH" || $method == "DELETE") { curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, $method); } if (!is_null($headers) && is_array($headers)) { curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers); } if (!is_null($closure)) { $closure($ch); } $response = curl_exec($ch); if ((curl_errno($ch) == 60)) { /* Invalid or no certificate authority found - Retrying without ssl */ curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); $response = curl_exec($ch); } /* If you want to retry on failed status code */ $retryCodes = array('401', '403', '404'); $retries = 0; $retryCount = 3; $httpStatus = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE); if (in_array($httpStatus, $retryCodes)) { do { $response = curl_exec($ch); $httpStatus = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE); } while (in_array($httpStatus, $retryCodes) && (++$retries < $retryCount)); } if (curl_errno($ch)) { $response = curl_error($ch); } curl_close($ch); return array( "code" => $httpStatus, "response" => $response ); } static function makeRawQuery($data, $keyPrefix = "") { $query = ""; foreach ($data as $key => $value) { if (is_array($value)) { if (strlen($keyPrefix) > 0) { $keyPrefixDummy = $keyPrefix . "[" . $key . "]"; } else { $keyPrefixDummy = $key; } $query = $query . self::makeRawQuery($value, $keyPrefixDummy); } else { if (strlen($keyPrefix) > 0) { $key = $keyPrefix . "[" . $key . "]"; } $query .= $key . "=" . rawurlencode($value) . "&"; } } return rtrim($query, "&"); } static function prettyPrint($o) { echo "<pre>"; print_r($o); echo "</pre>"; } }