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Installation ------------ [](#installation) In order to install this library via composer run the following command in the console: ``` composer require curl/curl ``` Usage examples -------------- [](#usage-examples) A few example for using CURL with get: ``` $curl = (new Curl\Curl())->get('http://www.example.com/'); if ($curl->isSuccess()) { // do something with response var_dump($curl->response); } // ensure to close the curl connection $curl->close(); ``` Or with params, values will be encoded with `PHP_QUERY_RFC1738`: ``` $curl = (new Curl\Curl())->get('http://www.example.com/search', [ 'q' => 'keyword', ]); ``` An example using post ``` $curl = new Curl\Curl(); $curl->post('http://www.example.com/login/', [ 'username' => 'myusername', 'password' => 'mypassword', ]); ``` An exampling using basic authentication, remove default user agent and working with error handling ``` $curl = new Curl\Curl(); $curl->setBasicAuthentication('username', 'password'); $curl->setUserAgent(''); $curl->setHeader('X-Requested-With', 'XMLHttpRequest'); $curl->setCookie('key', 'value'); $curl->get('http://www.example.com/'); if ($curl->error) { echo $curl->error_code; } else { echo $curl->response; } var_dump($curl->request_headers); var_dump($curl->response_headers); ``` SSL verification setup: ``` $curl = new Curl\Curl(); $curl->setOpt(CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE); $curl->setOpt(CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE); $curl->get('https://encrypted.example.com/'); ``` Example access to curl object: ``` curl_set_opt($curl->curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1'); curl_close($curl->curl); ``` Example of downloading a file or any other content ``` $curl = new Curl\Curl(); // open the file where the request response should be written $file_handle = fopen($target_file, 'w+'); // pass it to the curl resource $curl->setOpt(CURLOPT_FILE, $file_handle); // do any type of request $curl->get('https://github.com'); // disable writing to file $curl->setOpt(CURLOPT_FILE, null); // close the file for writing fclose($file_handle); ``` Testing ------- [](#testing) In order to test the library: 1. Create a fork 2. Clone the fork to your machine 3. Install the depencies `composer install` 4. Build and start the docker image (in `tests/server`) `docker build . -t curlserver` start `docker run -p 1234:80 curlserver` 5. Run the unit tests `./vendor/bin/phpunit tests` ### Health Score 16 — LowBetter than 5% of packages Maintenance31 Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained Popularity2 Limited adoption so far Community18 Small or concentrated contributor base Maturity16 Early-stage or recently created project Bus Factor2 2 contributors hold 50%+ of commits How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window. **Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores. **Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. 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