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// Posting JSON data to API using CURL

$data = array(
  "authorizedKey" => "abbad35c5c01-xxxx-xxx",
  "senderEmail" => "myemail@yahoo.com",
  "recipientEmail" => "jaketalledo86@yahoo.com",
  "comment" => "Invitation",
  "forceDebitCard" => "false"
);

$url_send ="http://api.payquicker.com/api/SendInvitation?authorizedKey=xxxxx";
$str_data = json_encode($data);

function sendPostData($url, $post){
  $ch = curl_init($url);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");  
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$post);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); 
  $result = curl_exec($ch);
  curl_close($ch);  // Seems like good practice
  return $result;
}

echo " " . sendPostData($url_send, $str_data);

// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18647611/posting-json-data-to-api-using-curl