How to send a POST request using PHP: curl, file_get_contents and other methods

Hello everyone! I'm new to PHP and trying to figure out how to send POST requests to external servers. I need to send form data (name, email) to an API endpoint and receive a response. I tried using file_get_contents(), but it doesn't work — either I'm forming the context incorrectly, or I'm using the wrong method altogether.\n\nHere's my code:\n\n```php\n$url = 'https://example.com/api/users';\n$data = ['name' => 'Ivan', 'email' => 'ivan@example.com'];\n\n$result = file_get_contents($url, false, stream_context_create([\n 'http' => [\n 'method' => 'POST',\n 'header' => 'Content-Type: application/json',\n 'content' => json_encode($data)\n ]\n]));\n\nif ($result === false) {\n echo 'Send error';\n} else {\n echo $result;\n}\n```\n\nThe problem is that I