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> PHP supports libcurl, a library, created by Daniel Stenberg, that
allows you to connect and communicate to many different types of
servers with many different types of protocols. libcurl currently
supports the http, https, ftp, gopher, telnet, dict, file, and
ldap protocols. libcurl also supports HTTPS certificates, HTTP
POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading (this can also be done with PHP's
ftp extension), HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies and
user+password authentication.
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> In order to use the CURL functions you need to install the <A
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CURL 7.0.2-beta or higher. PHP will not work with any version of
CURL below version 7.0.2-beta.
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> To use PHP's CURL support you must also compile PHP <TT
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location of the directory containing the lib and include
directories. In the "include" directory there should be a folder
named "curl" which should contain the easy.h and curl.h files.
There should be a file named "libcurl.a" located in the "lib"
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> These functions have been added in PHP 4.0.2.
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> Once you've compiled PHP with CURL support, you can begin using
the curl functions. The basic idea behind the CURL functions is
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the CURL functions to fetch the PHP homepage into a file:
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>Ejemplo 1. Using PHP's CURL module to fetch the PHP homepage</B
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$ch = curl_init ("http://www.php.net/");
$fp = fopen ("php_homepage.txt", "w");
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_INFILE, $fp);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
fclose ($fp);
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>curl_close</A
> -- Close a CURL session</DT
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>curl_errno</A
> -- Return an integer containing the last error number</DT
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>curl_error</A
> --
Return a string containing the last error for the current session
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>curl_exec</A
> -- Perform a CURL session</DT
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>curl_getinfo</A
> --
Get information regarding a specific transfer
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>curl_init</A
> -- Initialize a CURL session</DT
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>curl_setopt</A
> -- Set an option for a CURL transfer</DT
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>curl_version</A
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