function testPostCurl()
{
$url = 'http://www.iana.org/';
// host of example.org
$method = 'POST';
$headers = array();
$postVals = array();
$response = MendeleyUtil::runCurl($url, $method, $headers, $postVals);
$this->assertTrue(!empty($response));
}
/**
* Executes a CURL request
*
* @param $url string
* URL to make request to
* @param $method string
* HTTP transfer method
* @param $headers
* HTTP transfer headers
* @param $postvals
* post values
* @return string
*/
public static function runCurl($url, $method = 'GET', $headers = array(), $postvals = null)
{
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, $method);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 3);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, true);
switch ($method) {
case 'POST':
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postvals);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
break;
case 'DELETE':
if (!empty($postvals)) {
$url = $url . '?' . $postvals;
}
break;
}
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
$http_code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($ch);
if ($text = MendeleyUtil::isError($http_code)) {
if (Configuration::DEBUG > 0) {
var_dump(compact('http_code', 'url', 'method'));
}
$response = json_decode($response);
if (isset($response->error)) {
$error = $response->error;
} else {
$error = 'unknown error';
}
throw new Exception(sprintf('Error %d (%s): %s', $http_code, $text, $error));
$response = false;
}
return $response;
}