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CURL.SetOptionPostFields

Sets the post fields.

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Example value
curl	The CURL session handle.	$curl
Value	The post data.	""
Encoding	Optional The text encoding for text parameter. Default is UTF-8. Possible encoding names: ANSI, Arabic-Mac, Arabic-Win, Baltic-Win, CentralEurope-Mac, ChineseSimp-Mac, ChineseSimp-Win, ChineseTrad-Mac, ChineseTrad-Win, Cyrillic-Mac, Cyrillic-Win, EasternEurope-Win, Greek-Mac, Greek-Win, Hebrew-Mac, Hebrew-Win, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-3, ISO-8859-4, ISO-8859-5, ISO-8859-6, ISO-8859-7, ISO-8859-8, ISO-8859-9, ISO-8859-15, Korean-Johab, Korean-Mac, Korean-Win, Latin1, Mac, Native, ShiftJIS-Mac, ShiftJIS-Win, Turkish-Mac, Turkish-Win, UTF-8, DOS or Windows. Pass native to use the native encoding of the current platform.	"UTF8"

Result

Returns "OK" on success.

Description

See also COPYPOSTFIELDS option in CURL manual.

Examples

Set post field with some XML for SOAP WebService:

MBS("CURL.SetOptionPostFields"; $curl; "<xml>....</xml>"; "UTF-8")

Set post fields:

MBS("CURL.SetOptionPostFields"; $curl; "first=John&last=Smith"; "UTF-8")

Build form:

MBS( "CURL.FormAddKeyValue"; $curl; "login"; "testuser" )
MBS( "CURL.FormAddKeyValue"; $curl; "password"; "xxx" )
MBS( "CURL.FormFinish"; $curl )

Charge with Stripe webservice:

# new session
Set Variable [$curl; Value:MBS("CURL.New")]
# use stripe charge API
Set Variable [$result; Value:MBS("CURL.SetOptionURL"; $curl; "https://api.stripe.com/v1/charges")]
# set user name
Set Variable [$result; Value:MBS("CURL.SetOptionUsername"; $curl; "sk_test_ your id here")]
# make a post with given content:
Set Variable [$result; Value:MBS("CURL.SetOptionPost"; $curl; 1)]
Set Variable [$result; Value:MBS("CURL.SetOptionPostFields"; $curl; "amount=400&currency=usd&description=Charge%20for%20test@example.com&source[object]=card&source[number]=4242424242424242&source[exp_month]=12&source[exp_year]=2017&source[cvc]=123")]
# perform
Set Field [CURL Test::Result; MBS("CURL.Perform"; $curl)]
# now check result
Set Field [CURL Test::Text; MBS("CURL.GetResultAsText"; $curl; "UTF8")]
Set Field [CURL Test::header; MBS("CURL.GetDebugAsText"; $curl)]
# cleanup
Set Variable [$result; Value:MBS("CURL.Cleanup"; $curl)]

See also

• CURL.Perform
• CURL.SetInputText
• CURL.SetOptionCookieList
• CURL.SetOptionCustomRequest
• CURL.SetOptionHTTPHeader
• CURL.SetOptionPost
• CURL.SetOptionPostFieldSize
• CURL.SetOptionPostQuote
• CURL.SetOptionPostRedir
• CURL.SetOptionProtocols
• CURL.SetOptionSSLCert
• CURL.SetOptionSSLKey
• CURL.SetOptionURL
• CURL.SetOptionUsername
• CURL.SetupOAuth

Example Databases

• CURL/WebServices/ebay webservice/ebay Webservice
• CURL/WebServices/VAT WebService Example/VAT WebService Example
• CURL/WebServices/Swiss Post Addresscheck V4-02-00
• CURL/WebServices/Magento2 REST API
• CURL/WebServices/magento older
• CURL/WebServices/Twilio API Send SMS Json
• CURL/WebServices/AdobeSign WebService
• CURL/WebServices/Swiss Post Addresscheck
• CURL/Amazon S3 Upload File
• CURL/CURL FMS Admin API

Blog Entries

• Using Apple's Global Service Exchange web service in FileMaker
• Swiss Post Webservice to verify addresses
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Created 18th August 2014, last changed 17th January 2018

CURL.SetOptionPostFieldSize   -   CURL.SetOptionPostQuote

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