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dcai/curl
=========

A friendly curl wrapper for PHP.

0.2.2(8y ago)308.9k↓78.3%30GPL-3.0PHP

Since Dec 4Pushed 8y ago4 watchersCompare

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curl wrapper class for PHP
==========================

[](#curl-wrapper-class-for-php)

A PHP wrapper class to simplify [PHP cURL Library](http://php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php).

How to use
----------

[](#how-to-use)

Following code shows how to use this class

```
$http = new dcai\curl;
// enable cache
$http = new dcai\curl(array('cache'=>true));
// enable cookie
$http = new dcai\curl(array('cookie'=>true));
// enable proxy
$http = new dcai\curl(array('proxy'=>true));

// HTTP GET
$response = $http->get('http://example.com');
// HTTP POST
$response = $http->post('http://example.com/', array('q'=>'words', 'name'=>'moodle'));
// POST RAW
$xml = 'perform';
$response = $http->post('http://example.com/', $xml);
// HTTP PUT
$response = $http->put('http://example.com/', array('file'=>'/var/www/test.txt');
```

[![Build Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/00bde29005ece51062ae7d3374ef48e01d27c108acf44352a72e01e2ca79edd1/68747470733a2f2f7472617669732d63692e6f72672f646361692f6375726c2e706e67)](https://travis-ci.org/dcai/curl)

###  Health Score

35

—

LowBetter than 77% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity36

Limited adoption so far

Community17

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity55

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 94.4% of commits — single point of failure

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. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~277 days

Total

3

Last Release

2944d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/015a326b29eb29cb76ef8ef5803354294377ea74127d575e3d2084ad7ba48bb4?d=identicon)[dcai](/maintainers/dcai)

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Top Contributors

[![dcai](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7065?v=4)](https://github.com/dcai "dcai (34 commits)")[![mouneyrac](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/354908?v=4)](https://github.com/mouneyrac "mouneyrac (1 commits)")[![t-schroeder](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/24255259?v=4)](https://github.com/t-schroeder "t-schroeder (1 commits)")

---

Tags

curlphpphp-library

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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