Basic curl example
Basic curl example
Basic curl example
Once you’ve compiled PHP with cURL support, you can
begin using the cURL functions. The basic idea behind the cURL
functions is that you initialize a cURL session using the
curl_init(), then you can set all your
options for the transfer via the curl_setopt(), then you can execute the
session with the curl_exec()
and then you finish off your session using the curl_close(). Here is an example that uses
the cURL functions to fetch the example.com homepage into a
file:
Example #1 Using PHP’s cURL module to fetch the
example.com homepage
<?php
$ch
= curl_init("http://www.example.com/");
$fp = fopen("example_homepage.txt", "w");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);
?>