HTTP POST to a REST Service through PHP

Representational state transfer (REST) is a style of software architecture for distributed systems such as the World Wide Web. The term representational state transfer was introduced and defined in 2000 by Roy Fielding in his doctoral dissertation. Roy Fielding is one of the principal authors of the HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) specification versions 1.0 and 1.1.

<?php 
 
$service_url = 'http://contenttestservices/customer-team-service/ppc/cust/';
$curl = curl_init($service_url);
$curl_post_data = 'user=bobit';
 
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $curl_post_data);
 
$returnData = curl_exec($curl);
 
print $returnData;
 
?>