GET and POST with cURL together

Sometimes it is necessary  to send data with cURL using both GET and POST data, a simple example:

	$name = 'John';

    $surname = 'Smith';

    //  will be sent via POST: 

    $postData = array(

         'name' => $name,

         'surname' => $surname

     );

     

     // will be sent via GET as parameter string

     $getData = '?city=London&param=1&test=22'; 

     $url = 'http://myaddress.com' . $getData; //address

     $curl = curl_init($url);

     curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);

     curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postData);

     curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

     $result = curl_exec($curl);

     if(curl_errno($curl)){

         throw new Exception(curl_error($curl));

     }

     curl_close($curl);

$postData - a  data array to be sent via POST

$getData -  GET string with parameters