public static function post($url, $data = [], $method = 'POST')
    {
        $ch = curl_init();

        if ( ! empty($data)) {
            $data = http_build_query($data);
        }
        
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, $method);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);  //to suppress the curl output

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

        if (false !== $result) {
            $result = json_decode($result);
            
        } else {
            throw new \Exception('Error during making request');
        }

        return $result;
    }