php curl: I need a simple post request and retrival of page example

What about something like this :

$ch = curl_init();
$curlConfig = array(
    CURLOPT_URL            => "http://www.example.com/yourscript.php",
    CURLOPT_POST           => true,
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS     => array(
        'field1' => 'some date',
        'field2' => 'some other data',
    )
);
curl_setopt_array($ch, $curlConfig);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

// result sent by the remote server is in $result

For a list of options that can be used with curl, you can take a look at the page of curl_setopt.

Here, you'll have to use, at least :

• CURLOPT_POST : as you want to send a POST request, and not a GET
• CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER : depending on whether you want curl_exec to return the result of the request, or to just output it.
• CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS : The data that will be posted -- can be written directly as a string, like a querystring, or using an array

And don't hesitate to read the curl section of the PHP manual ;-)

you should check examples from here http://php.net/manual/en/curl.examples.php

Bellow is the code for you case,

$url = "http://build:f9280f75396f83a0@mobile-jenkins.domain.com:8080/job/android-test/buildWithParameters";     
$data = "POST_RESULTS=true&RUN_ID=".$testrun_id."&CHECK_NAME=SampleAutomatedPlan";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data); 

// $output contains the output string
$output = curl_exec($ch);

// close curl resource to free up system resources
curl_close($ch);    

You can use this function:

function post(url, data, headers, success) {
    $.ajax({
        beforeSend: function(xhr){
            $.each(headers, function(key, val) {
                xhr.setRequestHeader(key, val);
            });
            xhr.setRequestHeader('Content-Length', data.length);
        }
        type: "POST",
        url: url,
        processData: false,
        data: data,
        dataType: "xml",
        success: success
    });
}

using code like this:

var request = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>' +
       '<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"' +
       '        xmlns:yt="http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007">' +
       '    <category scheme="http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/subscriptiontypes.cat" term="channel"/>'+
       '    <yt:username>GoogleDevelopers</yt:username>' +
       '</entry>';

var headers = {
   'Content-Type': 'application/atom+xml',
   'Authorization': 'Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN'
   'GData-Version': 2
   'X-GData-Key': 'key=DEVELOPER_KEY'
};

post('/some/url', request, headers, function(response) {
   alert(response);
});