1.Step by step

Initialize the cURL session:

$url = "www.domain.com";
$ch = curl_init($url);

If your request has headers like bearer token or defining JSON contents you have to set HTTPHEADER options to cURL:

$token = "generated token code";
curl_setopt(
    $ch, 
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, 
    array(
        'Content-Type: application/json', // for define content type that is json
        'bearer: '.$token, // send token in header request
        'Content-length: 100' // content length for example 100 characters (can add by strlen($fields))
    )
);

If you want to include the header in the output set CURLOPT_HEADER to true:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);

Set RETURNTRANSFER option to true to return the transfer as a string instead of outputting it directly:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

To check the existence of a common name in the SSL peer certificate can be set to 0(to not check the names), 1(not supported in cURL 7.28.1), 2(default value and for production mode):

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2);

For posting fields as an array by cURL:

$fields = array(
    "username" => "user1",
    "password" => "passuser1",
    "gender" => 1
);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields);

Execute cURL and return the string. depending on your resource this returns output like result=OK:

$result = curl_exec($ch);

Close cURL resource, and free up system resources:

curl_close($ch);

2.Use as a class

The whole call_cURL class that can be extended:

class class_name_for_call_cURL {
    protected function getUrl() {
        return "www.domain.com";
    }

    public function call_cURL() {
        $token = "generated token code";

        $fields = array(
            "username" => "user1",
            "password" => "passuser1",
            "gender" => 1
        );

        $url = $this->getUrl();
        $output = $this->_execute($fields, $url, $token);

        // if you want to get json data
        // $output = json_decode($output);

        if ($output == "OK") {
            return true;
        } else {
             return false;
        }
    }

    private function _execute($postData, $url, $token) {
        // for sending data as json type
        $fields = json_encode($postData);

        $ch = curl_init($url);
        curl_setopt(
            $ch, 
            CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, 
            array(
                'Content-Type: application/json', // if the content type is json
                'bearer: '.$token // if you need token in header
            )
        );
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields);

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

        return $result;
    }
}

Using the class and call cURL:

$class = new class_name_for_call_cURL();
var_dump($class->call_cURL()); // output is true/false

3.One function

A function for using anywhere that needed:

function get_cURL() {

        $url = "www.domain.com";
        $token = "generated token code";

        $postData = array(
            "username" => "user1",
            "password" => "passuser1",
            "gender" => 1
        );

        // for sending data as json type
        $fields = json_encode($postData);

        $ch = curl_init($url);
        curl_setopt(
            $ch, 
            CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, 
            array(
                'Content-Type: application/json', // if the content type is json
                'bearer: '.$token // if you need token in header
            )
        );
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields);

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

        return $result;
}

This function is usable just by:

var_dump(get_cURL());