PHP cURL simple tutorial

CURL is a reflective object-oriented programming language for interactive web applications whose goal is to provide a smoother transition between formatting and programming. It makes it possible to embed complex objects in simple documents without needing to switch between programming languages or development platforms.

The strong point of cURL is the number of data transfer protocols it supports. It supports FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, TFTP, SCP, SFTP, Telnet, DICT, FILE and LDAP.

PHP cURL allows you to read websites, upload files, upload data, fetch data and lots of more stuff ... Now its the time to see what we can do we PHP cURL...

PHP cURL example-1 :

<?php
$ch = curl_init ("http://www.alexa.com");             /** Initialise curl with url of alexa.com **/

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);    /** Tell php curl that we want the data returned to us **/

$data = curl_exec ($ch);                            /** Execution of curl and result will be stored in $data **/

echo "<pre>";
print_r($data); /**preview result**/
?>

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Make HTTP Requests Using Curl and Decoding JSON Responses in PHP

PHP has Curl library that let’s you communicate with other servers. The Curl libaray is enabled by installing cUrl extension in PHP.INI. You just need to uncomment “extension=php_curl.dll” in PHP.INI file to install Curl library.

 

As a php developer, sometimes we need to get data from other server or need to make request to other server like payment gateways integration, fetching catalog etc. By using Curl library, You can make http request to a server and get the required data.  you can also decode the JSON result with json_decode() function.

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