Comments on: Using the CURL library in PHP

by: Arvind Jagtap

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:45:21 +0000

CURL is certainly a good thing. Using this I wrote couple of programs to remotely login to the site and get data posted there. This is simply amazing thing to work on by every PHP programmer.

by: Dennis Pallett

Sat, 29 Apr 2006 08:38:34 +0000

Jan, there are probably tons of wrappers already on phpclasses.org, and it’d be pretty easy to write your own as well.

by: Jan

Fri, 28 Apr 2006 05:44:49 +0000

As a Java/J2EE developer who also happens to use PHP for a few projects, I must conclude that this is the worst HTTP API that I have ever seen. It is not OO; you have to use curl_setopt() to set everything, including the URL and the parameters; by default output is printed to the browser instead of returned to the user, …

Maybe it’s not a bad idea to create a wrapper around it.

by: sandip wankhede

Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:29:36 +0000

Excellent***
Very very easy to understand

by: Andy Boyd » Using Curl

Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:59:57 +0000

[…] I’ve heard a few references to CURL but never knew much about it. CURL allows you to scrape/use other web pages as data . The most interesting use (I found) is you can automatically fill out form data and retrieve the $_POST array. CURL… it’s one bad mutha… http://phpit.net/article/using-curl-php/1 […]

by: AJ

Tue, 25 Apr 2006 02:17:22 +0000

Sorry forgot that you won’t see xml tags, so here I’ll try again;
$xml = ”
$MerchantID
$Account
$OrderID
$Amount

$CardNumber
$CardExpiryDate
$CardType

“;

by: AJ

Tue, 25 Apr 2006 02:15:02 +0000

You can also use curl to submit XML requests to XML providers, like credit card clearing houses. While I don’t know how efficent this is below is a small sample.

$xml = ”
$MerchantID
$Account
$OrderID
$Amount

$CardNumber
$CardExpiryDate
$CardType

“;
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $PaymentServer);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml);
$response = curl_exec ($curl);
curl_close ($curl)

$returnedXML = simplexml_load_string($response);