javascript - Requesting a POST METHOD to a url

Solution:

For the africastalking, the normal syntax is (if you are using curl and you have the apikey)

curl -X POST \
    https://api.sandbox.africastalking.com/version1/airtime/send \
    -H 'Accept: application/json' \
    -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
    -H 'apiKey: MyAppAPIKey' \
    -d 'username=myAppUserName&recipients=%5B%7B%22phoneNumber%22%3A%20%22MyPhoneNumber%22%2C%22currencyCode%22%3A%20%22KES%22%2C%20%22amount%22%3A%20%22100%22%20%7D%5D'
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Obviously their system requires you to submit data by POST.

Since they have already sent you the PHP sample codes, just put the php in your webserver (or any machine capable of running PHP) and then execute the PHP will be fine. (according to your sample PHP codes, the result will be printed on screen: print_r($results);). Their API should have already taken care of all the required methods, including the POST data requests.

But of course you need to install the API first, I believe they may ask you to use composer to install it. (if you do not know how to use composer, or if your system does not support it, an alternative method is to ask them to provide the necessary files so that you can use FTP to upload to your site. But using composer or similar tools will be easier)

Last but not least , you may use the above curl syntax (curl -X POST xxxxx) to create a php script to submit the post request, please see below a sample:

Additional Information (sample php code):

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://api.sandbox.africastalking.com/version1/airtime/send');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "username=myAppUserName&recipients=testrecipient&phoneNumber=12121212&MyPhoneNumber=99999999&currencyCode=KES&amount=100");

$headers = array();
$headers[] = 'Accept: application/json';
$headers[] = 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded';
$headers[] = 'Apikey: MyAppAPIKey';
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

$result = curl_exec($ch);
echo $result; 
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
    echo 'Error:' . curl_error($ch);
}
curl_close($ch);
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