Use curl to post to another PHP script

Question

I have two PHP scripts. One posts a message "Hello" while the other receives it. Currently, the second PHP script receives a _POST['message'] but the contents of that message is empty!

Script One:

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array(
 'message' => 'Hello'
));
$result = curl_exec($ch);
if($result) {
echo("Successful post");
}
curl_close($ch);

Script Two:

if($_POST['message']) {
  echo("received post message");
  echo ("message:" . $POST['message']);

Currently script Two prints "received post messagemessage:"

I'm completely flummoxed - from looking at this post, it seems my syntax is correct....

Have a look at this stackoverflow.com/questions/17618160/… I had a similar issue — Liam Sorsby
– Liam Sorsby, Commented Aug 11, 2013 at 13:26
Hard to spot typo: $POST should be $_POST. This means you need to turn on display_errors and crank up error_reporting because you would have seen a Notice: undefined variable $POST. Always in development, do error_reporting(E_ALL); ini_set('display_errors', 1); — Michael Berkowski
– Michael Berkowski, Commented Aug 11, 2013 at 13:28
Also, when debugging I recommend working backward. If you didn't get what you expected from $_POST['message'], broaden it a little to the full array and check print_r($_POST); there, you would have seen your expected value. — Michael Berkowski
– Michael Berkowski, Commented Aug 11, 2013 at 13:30
This question appears to be off-topic because it is related to a minor typographical error — Michael Berkowski
– Michael Berkowski, Commented Aug 11, 2013 at 13:31

Shankar Narayana Damodaran · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-11 13:27:08Z

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Script two has wrong syntax, it must be $_POST.

if($_POST['message']) {
  echo("received post message");
  echo ("message:" . $_POST['message']);

answered Aug 11, 2013 at 13:27

Shankar Narayana Damodaran

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