Help needed please

Help needed please

Hi. Can anyone tell me why this script isn't working please? I'm trying to insert a record into the Leads module from a PHP script. Curl is set up and working on my website.

<?php
$token="{ MY TOKEN GOES HERE }";
$param= "authtoken=".$token."&scope=crmapi";
$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);//standard i/o streams 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);// Turn off the server and peer verification 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, FALSE); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);//Set to return data to string ($response) 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);//Regular post 

/* curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $param); */

$xmlData = "<Leads><row no='1'>
<FL val='First Name'>John</FL>
</row></Leads>";

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

?>