Sending a GET/POST Request via PHP without CURL (fopen needs to be enabled)

request_no_curl.php

<?php
$url = 'http://server.com/path';
$data = array('key1' => 'value1', 'key2' => 'value2');

// use key 'http' even if you send the request to https://...
$options = array(
  'http' => array(
    'header'  => "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n",
    'method'  => 'POST',
    'content' => http_build_query($data),
  ),
);
$context  = stream_context_create($options);
$result = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);

var_dump($result);

Thanks, it helped me to solve my task today :)

Why should one prefer this in place of cURL? Is there any pros of using it over php cURL?

Why should one prefer this in place of cURL? Is there any pros of using it over php cURL?

As this is from 2014, it was from a time where shared hosts had no curl available or disabled the usage as security measurement. So if you can use curl, just use it or better something like guzzle