//Tell curl to use the specified request method and version
if (!empty($this->httpmethod)) curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, $this->httpmethod);
if ($this->httpmethod == “POST”) curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $this->formvars);

function submit($uri, $formvars=null, $formfiles=null)
{
settype($formvars, “array”);
settype($formfiles, “array”);
$postdata = ”;
while(list($key,$val) = each($formvars)) {
if (is_array($val) || is_object($val)) {
while (list($cur_key, $cur_val) = each($val)) {
$postdata .= urlencode($key).”[]=”.urlencode($cur_val).”&”;
}
} else
$postdata .= urlencode($key).”=”.urlencode($val).”&”;
}

$this->formvars = $postdata;
//$this->formfiles = $formfiles;
$this->httpmethod = “POST”;

return $this->fetch($uri);
}

The HTTP extension is not a ‘drop in replacement’ for snoopy. You would need to do some rewriting for a project. This lib is here to replace snoopy in projects that already uses snoopy. For new projects, I do not suggest to use this lib (as stated in the last line of the article).