Following code returns the curl output as a string.
<?php
// create curl resource
$ch = curl_init();
// set url
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "example.com");
//return the transfer as a string
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
// $output contains the output string
$output = curl_exec($ch);
// close curl resource to free up system resources
curl_close($ch);
?>
Basic cURL file or page download with basic error trapping.
<?php
function cURLcheckBasicFunctions()
{
if( !function_exists("curl_init") &&
!function_exists("curl_setopt") &&
!function_exists("curl_exec") &&
!function_exists("curl_close") ) return false;
else return true;
}
/*
* Returns string status information.
* Can be changed to int or bool return types.
*/
function cURLdownload($url, $file)
{
if( !cURLcheckBasicFunctions() ) return "UNAVAILABLE: cURL Basic Functions";
$ch = curl_init();
if($ch)
{
$fp = fopen($file, "w");
if($fp)
{
if( !curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url) )
{
fclose($fp); // to match fopen()
curl_close($ch); // to match curl_init()
return "FAIL: curl_setopt(CURLOPT_URL)";
}
if( !curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp) ) return "FAIL: curl_setopt(CURLOPT_FILE)";
if( !curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0) ) return "FAIL: curl_setopt(CURLOPT_HEADER)";
if( !curl_exec($ch) ) return "FAIL: curl_exec()";
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);
return "SUCCESS: $file [$url]";
}
else return "FAIL: fopen()";
}
else return "FAIL: curl_init()";
}
// Download from 'example.com' to 'example.txt'
echo cURLdownload("http://www.example.com", "example.txt");
?>
- JLèé
This simple code work fine using libcurl versions before 7.18.x.
<?php
$ch = curl_init("www.example.com/curl.php?option=test");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$output = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $output;
?>
If you have some trouble (Ex.: Failed to open/read local data from file/application) using a similar code with libcurl 7.18.x, try to add the option curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "").
I think there was a change in the option CURLOPT_POST. Now, to use this option, it seems to be necessary to set the option CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.
