<?php


if (!function_exists('http_build_str')) {
function http_build_str($data, $prefix='', $sep='', $key='') {
   $ret = array();
   foreach ((array)$data as $k => $v) {
       if (is_int($k) && $prefix != null) $k = urlencode($prefix . $k);
       if (!empty($key)) $k = $key.'['.urlencode($k).']';
       
       if (is_array($v) || is_object($v))
           array_push($ret, http_build_str($v, '', $sep, $k));
       else    array_push($ret, $k.'='.urlencode($v));
   }
 
   if (empty($sep)) $sep = ini_get('arg_separator.output');
   return implode($sep, $ret);
}}


$url = 'http://www.247footballchat.com/sportsupdate/sportsupdate.php';
$postFields = array();
$callname = 'acknowledge';
$postFields['cmd'] = $callname;
$postFields['args'] = json_encode(array('id' => 23));

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 10);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_str($postFields));
echo $ch;


?>