Execute a HTTP POST Using PHP CURL

//extract data from the post
extract($_POST);

//set POST variables
$url = 'http://domain.com/get-post.php';
$fields = array(
	'lname' => urlencode($last_name),
	'fname' => urlencode($first_name),
	'title' => urlencode($title),
	'company' => urlencode($institution),
	'age' => urlencode($age),
	'email' => urlencode($email),
	'phone' => urlencode($phone)
);

//url-ify the data for the POST
foreach($fields as $key=>$value) { $fields_string .= $key.'='.$value.'&'; }
rtrim($fields_string, '&');

//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, count($fields));
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields_string);

//execute post
$result = curl_exec($ch);

//close connection
curl_close($ch);