send http request with CURL to local file

As of PHP 5.4.0, the CLI SAPI provides a built-in web server. You could simply serve up the directory that your fe.php script lives in and then run your script which curls this.

From the command line change to the directory and run:

cd /path/to/script/te/
php -S localhost:8000

Now amend your code so that it connects on port 8000:

<?php
$url = 'http://localhost:8000/fe.php';
// The submitted form data, encoded as query-string-style
// name-value pairs
$body = 'monkey=uncle&rhino=aunt';
$c = curl_init ($url);
curl_setopt ($c, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt ($c, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $body);
curl_setopt ($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$page = curl_exec ($c);
curl_close ($c);
?>

Now run your script e.g.:

php -f /path/to/curl/script.php

I've managed of calling a local url by using the file:// call. Unfortunately, I'd like to be able to use a relative path for it to be easier to maintain from within the project files, but you can do this:

Here I'm assuming that I'm using my WAMP, but that the solution translates for servers too:** http://te/fe.php** would translate to (assuming it were in wamp) to: file:///c:/wamp/www/te/fe.php

<?php
$url = 'fe.php';
// The submitted form data, encoded as query-string-style
// name-value pairs

-> USE below <-
$varArr = array(
'monkey' => 'uncle',
'rhino' => 'aunt'
);
$body = http_build_query($varArr); // this will build query string

-> INSTED OF below <-
$body = 'monkey=uncle&rhino=aunt';

$c = curl_init ($url);
curl_setopt ($c, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt ($c, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $body);
curl_setopt ($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$page = curl_exec ($c);
curl_close ($c);
?>