PHP Post Request Sending

Question

I use PHP5.3 with CodeIgniter framework, also using TOAST - CodeIgniter Unit Testing library.

I need to test my controllers, it requires POST for variable passing. I tried cUrl and stream_context_create, both failed. (curl is enabled) However I can do it succesfully using POSTMAN with same body data. So, receiver works well, i have problem on sender.

curl_handle = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://localhost:8080/myApp/index.php?/systemAdministration/runScheduledETL');
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array('id' => $id));

$buffer = curl_exec($curl_handle);
curl_close($curl_handle);

Also, i tried:

url = 'http://localhost:8080/myApp/index.php?/systemAdministration/runScheduledETL';
$data = array('id' => $id);

$options = array(
    'http' => array(
       'header'  => "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
       'method'  => 'POST',
       'content' => http_build_query($data)
    )
);
$context  = stream_context_create($options);
$result = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);

Answer 1

Without knowing the error you're getting it's a little hard to diagnose but it could well be that your request is getting redirected (302 or 301 status code). That would drop the post data.

My .htaccess redirects a request if it doesn't end in a slash, so maybe try adding a slash at the end of the URL?