It is possible to send POST data with file_get_contents() and get the returned content, by using it with the stream_context_create() function.
The stream_context_create($opt) creates and returns a stream context with any options supplied in the $opt array.
- $opt is an array of associative arrays in the format: $arr['wrapper']['option'] = $value .

Example stream_context_create() and file_get_contents()

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$postdata = http_build_query(['name'=>'some name', 'pass'=>'password']);  //data to send 'name=some+name&pass=password'
$opts = [
 'http' =>
  [
   'method'=> 'POST',  // GET or POST
   'header' => 'Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded'. PHP_EOL .'Content-Length: '. strlen($postdata). PHP_EOL,
   'content' => $postdata
  ]
];
$send_data  = stream_context_create($opts);
$cnt = file_get_contents('http://domain.net/page.php', false, $send_data);  //send data and get the returned content

echo $cnt;
- The http_build_query($arr) function generates a URL-encoded query string from the $arr, returns a string like this: 'key1=val1&key2=val2'.
- The value of the key 'method' must be in UPPERCASE (GET or POST).
- The 'header' key contains http headers that must be send to "page.php".

Daily Test with Code Example

HTML
CSS
JavaScript
PHP-MySQL
Which tag is used to add lists into <ul> and <ol> elements?
<dt> <dd> <li>
<ul>
 <li>http://coursesweb.net/html/</li>
 <li>http://coursesweb.net/css/</li>
</ul>
Which value of the "display" property creates a block box for the content and ads a bullet marker?
block list-item inline-block
.some_class {
  display: list-item;
}
Which instruction converts a JavaScript object into a JSON string.
JSON.parse() JSON.stringify eval()
var obj = {
 "courses": ["php", "javascript", "ajax"]
};
var jsonstr = JSON.stringify(obj);
alert(jsonstr);    // {"courses":["php","javascript","ajax"]}
Indicate the PHP class used to work with HTML and XML content in PHP.
stdClass PDO DOMDocument
$strhtml = '<body><div id="dv1">CoursesWeb.net</div></body>';
$dochtml = new DOMDocument();
$dochtml->loadHTML($strhtml);
$elm = $dochtml->getElementById("dv1");
echo $elm->nodeValue;    // CoursesWeb.net
Send POST data with file_get_contents

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