Is my PHP cURL request malformed because of using a variable in the URL?

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Is my PHP cURL request malformed because of using a variable in the URL The request works fine when I check it without that Variable. How can i fix it?

<?php

$search_string = $_POST["search_string"];

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
    CURLOPT_URL => "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/textsearch/json?query=" . $search_string . "&key=AIzaSyDsb0EFY9lde2EcTYKou3Xrz9ax91qiuTY",
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET"
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
    echo "cURL Error: " . $err;
} else {
    echo $response;
}

?>

var_dump($search_string); to confirm the value is what you expect — Patrick Q
– Patrick Q, Commented Aug 8, 2019 at 13:11

okazwłoka · Accepted Answer · 2021-07-28 10:54:53Z

1

Please define constant:

define('MYURL',   "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/textsearch/json?query=" . $search_string . "&key=AIzaSyDsb0EFY9lde2EcTYKou3Xrz9ax91qiuTY");

Change CURLOPT_URL to: CURLOPT_URL => MYURL

This works for me.

answered Jul 28, 2021 at 10:54

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2 Comments

Ad5001 Over a year ago

I fail to see how that would resolve the problem. You're just aliasing a variable to the string and passing it at a parameter. If the issue is with the URL or a cURL variable to begin with, this wouldn't solve anything.

okazwłoka Over a year ago

It's magic :) Cant explain.

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