Send a POST request with cURL in PHP

$ch = curl_init('https://api.example.com/v1/orders');

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($fields));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);

$body = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);