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curl_exec

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.2, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

curl_execExecuta uma sessão cURL

Descrição

curl_exec(CurlHandle $handle): string|bool

Executa a sessão cURL fornecida.

Esta função deve ser chamada após inicializar uma sessão cURL e todas as opções para a sessão são definidas.

Parâmetros

handle

Um manipulador cURL retornado por curl_init().

Valor Retornado

Em caso de sucesso, esta função descarrega o resultado diretamente em stdout e retorna true, ou false em caso de falha. No entanto, se a opção CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER estiver definida, ela retornará o resultado em caso de sucesso ou false em caso de falha.

Aviso

Esta função pode retornar o valor booleano false, mas também pode retornar um valor não booleano que pode ser avaliado como false. Leia a seção sobre Booleanos para mais informações. Use o operador === para testar o valor retornado por esta função.

Nota:

Observe que os códigos de retorno que indicam erros (por exemplo, 404 Not found) não são tratados como falhas. Use curl_getinfo() para verificar esses casos.

Registro de Alterações

Versão Descrição
8.0.0 O parâmetro handle agora espera uma instância de CurlHandle; anteriormente, um resource era esperado.

Exemplos

Exemplo #1 Obtendo uma página da web

<?php
// Cria um novo identificador cURL
$ch = curl_init();

// Confiura o URL e as opções
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.example.com/");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

// Obtem os dados
curl_exec($ch);

// Fecha o identificador e libera recursos internos
curl_close($ch);
?>

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Notas Enviadas por Usuários (em inglês) 9 notes

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David from Code2Design.com
14 years ago
Just in case anyone is looking for a a couple of simple functions [to help automate cURL processes for POST and GET queries] I thought I'd post these.

<?php

/**
* Send a POST requst using cURL
* @param string $url to request
* @param array $post values to send
* @param array $options for cURL
* @return string
*/
function curl_post($url, array $post = NULL, array $options = array())
{
$defaults = array(
CURLOPT_POST => 1,
CURLOPT_HEADER => 0,
CURLOPT_URL => $url,
CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT => 1,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1,
CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE => 1,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 4,
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => http_build_query($post)
);

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($ch, ($options + $defaults));
if( !
$result = curl_exec($ch))
{
trigger_error(curl_error($ch));
}
curl_close($ch);
return
$result;
}

/**
* Send a GET requst using cURL
* @param string $url to request
* @param array $get values to send
* @param array $options for cURL
* @return string
*/
function curl_get($url, array $get = NULL, array $options = array())
{
$defaults = array(
CURLOPT_URL => $url. (strpos($url, '?') === FALSE ? '?' : ''). http_build_query($get),
CURLOPT_HEADER => 0,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => TRUE,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 4
);

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($ch, ($options + $defaults));
if( !
$result = curl_exec($ch))
{
trigger_error(curl_error($ch));
}
curl_close($ch);
return
$result;
}
?>
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Anonymous
18 years ago
Be careful when using curl_exec() and the CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER option. According to the manual and assorted documentation:
Set CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER to TRUE to return the transfer as a string of the return value of curl_exec() instead of outputting it out directly.

When retrieving a document with no content (ie. 0 byte file), curl_exec() will return bool(true), not an empty string. I've not seen any mention of this in the manual.

Example code to reproduce this:
<?php

// fictional URL to an existing file with no data in it (ie. 0 byte file)
$url = 'http://www.example.com/empty_file.txt';

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);

// execute and return string (this should be an empty string '')
$str = curl_exec($curl);

curl_close($curl);

// the value of $str is actually bool(true), not empty string ''
var_dump($str);

?>
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turiyag
7 years ago
Don't disable SSL verification! You don't need to, and it's super easy to stay secure! If you found that turning off "CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST" and "CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER" solved your problem, odds are you're just on a Windows box. Takes 2 min to solve the problem. Walkthrough here:

https://snippets.webaware.com.au/howto/stop-turning-off-curlopt_ssl_verifypeer-and-fix-your-php-config/
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jpatta at digitalgamesystems dot com
3 years ago
If you are looking the debug curl_exec, you may wish to log its details, and analyze the various time points during its execution.

before curl_exec:

<?php
// this will produce a curl log
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_STDERR, fopen('/your/writable/app/logdir/curl.log', 'a+')); // a+ to append...
?>

after curl_exec, but before curl_close:

<?php
// this will extract the timing information
extract(curl_getinfo($curl)); // create metrics variables from getinfo
$appconnect_time = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_APPCONNECT_TIME); // request this time explicitly
$downloadduration = number_format($total_time - $starttransfer_time, 9); // format, to get rid of scientific notation
$namelookup_time = number_format($namelookup_time, 9);
$metrics = "CURL...: $url Time...: $total_time DNS: $namelookup_time Connect: $connect_time SSL/SSH: $appconnect_time PreTransfer: $pretransfer_time StartTransfer: $starttransfer_time Download: $downloadduration";
error_log($metrics); // write to php-fpm default www-error.log, or append it to same log as above with file_put_contents(<filename>, $metrics, FILE_APPEND)
?>

Happy debugging
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roman dot ivasyuk at gmail dot com
16 years ago
<?php
class CurlRequest
{
private
$ch;
/**
* Init curl session
*
* $params = array('url' => '',
* 'host' => '',
* 'header' => '',
* 'method' => '',
* 'referer' => '',
* 'cookie' => '',
* 'post_fields' => '',
* ['login' => '',]
* ['password' => '',]
* 'timeout' => 0
* );
*/
public function init($params)
{
$this->ch = curl_init();
$user_agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U;
Windows NT 5.1; ru; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061206 Firefox/1.5.0.9'
;
$header = array(
"Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,
text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5"
,
"Accept-Language: ru-ru,ru;q=0.7,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3",
"Accept-Charset: windows-1251,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7",
"Keep-Alive: 300");
if (isset(
$params['host']) && $params['host']) $header[]="Host: ".$host;
if (isset(
$params['header']) && $params['header']) $header[]=$params['header'];

@
curl_setopt ( $this -> ch , CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER , 1 );
@
curl_setopt ( $this -> ch , CURLOPT_VERBOSE , 1 );
@
curl_setopt ( $this -> ch , CURLOPT_HEADER , 1 );

if (
$params['method'] == "HEAD") @curl_setopt($this -> ch,CURLOPT_NOBODY,1);
@
curl_setopt ( $this -> ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
@
curl_setopt ( $this -> ch , CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header );
if (
$params['referer']) @curl_setopt ($this -> ch , CURLOPT_REFERER, $params['referer'] );
@
curl_setopt ( $this -> ch , CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $user_agent);
if (
$params['cookie']) @curl_setopt ($this -> ch , CURLOPT_COOKIE, $params['cookie']);

if (
$params['method'] == "POST" )
{
curl_setopt( $this -> ch, CURLOPT_POST, true );
curl_setopt( $this -> ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $params['post_fields'] );
}
@
curl_setopt( $this -> ch, CURLOPT_URL, $params['url']);
@
curl_setopt ( $this -> ch , CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0 );
@
curl_setopt ( $this -> ch , CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0 );
if (isset(
$params['login']) & isset($params['password']))
@
curl_setopt($this -> ch , CURLOPT_USERPWD,$params['login'].':'.$params['password']);
@
curl_setopt ( $this -> ch , CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $params['timeout']);
}

/**
* Make curl request
*
* @return array 'header','body','curl_error','http_code','last_url'
*/
public function exec()
{
$response = curl_exec($this->ch);
$error = curl_error($this->ch);
$result = array( 'header' => '',
'body' => '',
'curl_error' => '',
'http_code' => '',
'last_url' => '');
if (
$error != "" )
{
$result['curl_error'] = $error;
return
$result;
}

$header_size = curl_getinfo($this->ch,CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE);
$result['header'] = substr($response, 0, $header_size);
$result['body'] = substr( $response, $header_size );
$result['http_code'] = curl_getinfo($this -> ch,CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
$result['last_url'] = curl_getinfo($this -> ch,CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL);
return
$result;
}
}
?>

Example of use:
<?php
..........
try
{
$params = array('url' => 'http://www.google.com',
'host' => '',
'header' => '',
'method' => 'GET', // 'POST','HEAD'
'referer' => '',
'cookie' => '',
'post_fields' => '', // 'var1=value&var2=value
'timeout' => 20
);

$this->curl->init($params);
$result = $this->curl->exec();
if (
$result['curl_error']) throw new Exception($result['curl_error']);
if (
$result['http_code']!='200') throw new Exception("HTTP Code = ".$result['http_code']);
if (!
$result['body']) throw new Exception("Body of file is empty");
...............
}
catch (
Exception $e)
{
echo
$e->getMessage();
}
?>
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hablutzel1 at gmail dot com
10 years ago
Be always aware that CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER set to FALSE or 0 should never be used for production as it makes the link inmediately vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attack, still you can use it during development, but I would suggest that only if you KNOW what are you doing, otherwise spend some more time making requests to HTTPS sites work without resorting to set that option to FALSE or 0.
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lukasl at ackleymedia dot com
18 years ago
Thank you for sharing this. I was wondering why my result was 1.

To get around this in a safe way, this is how I check if the result is valid.

$ch = curl_init(); /// initialize a cURL session
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$xmlResponse = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);

if (!is_string($xmlResponse) || !strlen($xmlResponse)) {
return $this->_set_error( "Failure Contacting Server" );
} else {
return $xmlResponse;
}
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nagyp at hunaxon dot hu
21 years ago
fyi:
It returns false if there's an error while executing the curl session, no matter how CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER is set.
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Roland
4 years ago
To check for a timeout or error -

if (!$responsexml || !is_string($responsexml) || !strlen($responsexml) || strpos($responsexml, 'upstream request timeout') !== false) {
return $this->sendRequest($request, $headers);
}
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