用PHP发送GET或POST请求的更好方法如下:

<?php
    $r = new HttpRequest('http://example.com/form.php', HttpRequest::METH_POST);
    $r->setOptions(array('cookies' => array('lang' => 'de')));
    $r->addPostFields(array('user' => 'mike', 'pass' => 's3c|r3t'));

    try {
        echo $r->send()->getBody();
    } catch (HttpException $ex) {
        echo $ex;
    }
?>

代码摘自官方文档http://docs.php.net/manual/da/httprequest.send.php

尝试PEAR的HTTP_Request2包来轻松地发送POST请求。或者，您可以使用PHP的curl函数或使用PHP流上下文。

HTTP_Request2还使模拟服务器成为可能，因此您可以轻松地对代码进行单元测试

我更喜欢这个:

function curlPost($url, $data = NULL, $headers = []) {
    $ch = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.132 Safari/537.36');
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5); //timeout in seconds
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, 'identity');

    
    if (!empty($data)) {
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
    }

    if (!empty($headers)) {
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
    }

    $response = curl_exec($ch);
    if (curl_error($ch)) {
        trigger_error('Curl Error:' . curl_error($ch));
    }

    curl_close($ch);
    return $response;
}

使用的例子:

$response=curlPost("http://my.url.com", ["myField1"=>"myValue1"], ["myFitstHeaderName"=>"myFirstHeaderValue"]);

如果你碰巧使用Wordpress来开发你的应用(它实际上是一种获得授权、信息页面等非常简单的东西的方便方式)，你可以使用下面的代码片段:

$response = wp_remote_post( $url, array('body' => $parameters));

if ( is_wp_error( $response ) ) {
    // $response->get_error_message()
} else {
    // $response['body']
}

它使用不同的方式来发出实际的HTTP请求，这取决于web服务器上可用的内容。有关更多详细信息，请参阅HTTP API文档。

如果你不想开发一个自定义主题或插件来启动Wordpress引擎，你可以在Wordpress根目录下的一个单独的PHP文件中执行以下操作:

require_once( dirname(__FILE__) . '/wp-load.php' );

// ... your code

它不会显示任何主题或输出任何HTML，只是hack away Wordpress api !

你可以使用cURL:

<?php
//The url you wish to send the POST request to
$url = $file_name;

//The data you want to send via POST
$fields = [
    '__VIEWSTATE '      => $state,
    '__EVENTVALIDATION' => $valid,
    'btnSubmit'         => 'Submit'
];

//url-ify the data for the POST
$fields_string = http_build_query($fields);

//open connection
$ch = curl_init();

//set the url, number of POST vars, POST data
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields_string);

//So that curl_exec returns the contents of the cURL; rather than echoing it
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); 

//execute post
$result = curl_exec($ch);
echo $result;
?>

PHP5的无卷曲方法:

$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, $context);
if ($result === FALSE) { /* Handle error */ }

var_dump($result);

有关该方法和如何添加头的更多信息，请参阅PHP手册，例如:

stream_context_create: http://php.net/manual/en/function.stream-context-create.php