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    PHP Curl

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    Gopal Sharma
    The cURL library allows PHP scripts to communicate with other servers using various protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, FTP. It provides functions like curl_init() to initialize a session, curl_setopt() to set options like the URL, POST data, and curl_exec() to perform the request. Parameters can be passed via the URL for GET or as a string/array for POST. curl_exec() returns the result which can be captured instead of outputting directly using curl_setopt(CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER). Other functions include curl_close(), curl_copy_handle(), curl_errno() and more.

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    PHP Curl

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    The cURL library allows PHP scripts to communicate with other servers using various protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, FTP. It provides functions like curl_init() to initialize a session, curl_setopt() to set options like the URL, POST data, and curl_exec() to perform the request. Parameters can be passed via the URL for GET or as a string/array for POST. curl_exec() returns the result which can be captured instead of outputting directly using curl_setopt(CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER). Other functions include curl_close(), curl_copy_handle(), curl_errno() and more.

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    Using Curl in PHP

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    The cURL library allows PHP scripts to communicate with other servers using various protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, FTP. It provides functions like curl_init() to initialize a session, curl_setopt() to set options like the URL, POST data, and curl_exec() to perform the request. Parameters can be passed via the URL for GET or as a string/array for POST. curl_exec() returns the result which can be captured instead of outputting directly using curl_setopt(CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER). Other functions include curl_close(), curl_copy_handle(), curl_errno() and more.

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    PHP Curl

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    Gopal Sharma
    The cURL library allows PHP scripts to communicate with other servers using various protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, FTP. It provides functions like curl_init() to initialize a session, curl_setopt() to set options like the URL, POST data, and curl_exec() to perform the request. Parameters can be passed via the URL for GET or as a string/array for POST. curl_exec() returns the result which can be captured instead of outputting directly using curl_setopt(CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER). Other functions include curl_close(), curl_copy_handle(), curl_errno() and more.

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    The document discusses the cURL library which allows PHP scripts to communicate with other servers using various protocols. It allows for making synchronous remote calls from a PHP page.

    The cURL library allows PHP scripts to retrieve information from another web server and process it on the PHP page rather than just displaying it. It provides a mechanism for making synchronous remote calls.

    The main cURL functions are curl_init() to initialize a session, curl_setopt() to set options, and curl_exec() to perform the request. Other functions include curl_close(), curl_errno(), curl_error(), etc.

    The PHP Client URL (cURL) library

    Fulvio Corno
    e-lite Research Group Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica Politecnico di Torino Torino - Italy http://elite.polito.it

    v. 1.0, 2009-03-23

    The cURL library

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    The cURL library

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    The problem

    From a PHP page, being able to retrieve information served by another web server The information must be processed by the PHP page, not simply shown on the resulting page We need an synchronous remote call mechanism

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    Ingredients

    1 2

    The URL address of a remote web page The parameters that we should pass to such remote page
    How many parameters? Names? Data types? Values? In what form? GET? POST? Encoding?

    The format of the results returned by the remote page


    Format: text? xml? DTD or schema? Error codes: in http response header or encoded as part of the result?

    The PHP Client URL (cURL) library 4 / 13

    The cURL library

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    The cURL library

    cURL is one of the most powerful PHP extensions. It stands for Client URL, and allows you to communicate with other servers using a wide range of protocols. libcurl (the library behind the PHP cURL extension) currently supports a wide range of protocols, including HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, TELNET, FILE, LDAP, DICT, GOPHER and HTTPS, as well as HTTPS certicates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, and user:password authentication.

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    Main functions

    curl_init Initialize a cURL session returns a handle object ($ch) curl_setopt Set an option for a cURL transfer common options: URL, POST data, result disposition curl_exec Perform a cURL session actual data transfer and http request curl_close Close a cURL session end of transaction

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    Basic example
    $ch = curl_init( ) ; curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://abc.com/page.php") ; // do a POST curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true) ; curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "id=333")

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true ) ; // return the result of curl_exec, instead // of outputting it directly $result = curl_exec($ch) ; curl_close($ch) ;

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    Sending the request

    set the URL with CURLOPT_URL parameters in GET


    encoded in the URL

    "...page.php?id=333&user=pippo" parameters in POST


    specify POST instead of GET with option CURLOPT_POST set to

    true
    specify all parameters in CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS
    encoded as a string as an associative array in PHP

    The PHP Client URL (cURL) library 8 / 13

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    Getting the result

    call curl_exec($ch) usually, the result is directly interpolated in the page (implicit echo) to avoid interpolation, set CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER to true
    result is returned as a string by the curl_exec call

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    Other functions

    curl_copy_handle Copy a cURL handle along with all of its preferences curl_errno Return the last error number curl_error Return a string containing the last error for the current session curl_getinfo Get information regarding a specic transfer curl_setopt_array Set multiple options for a cURL transfer curl_version Gets cURL version information

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    Other options

    CURLOPT_HEADER TRUE to include the header in the output CURLOPT_PORT An alternative port number to connect to. CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER An array of HTTP header elds to set. CURLOPT_FILE The le that the transfer should be written to. The default is STDOUT (the browser window).

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    Further information

    http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php

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    License

    This document is lincensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

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