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[HTTP & Networking](/categories/http) 4. / 5. shuber/curl ActiveLibrary[HTTP & Networking](/categories/http) shuber/curl =========== PHP Wrapper for Curl v1.0.0(13y ago)311.1M—0.6%13[4 PRs](https://github.com/hamstar/curl/pulls)2MITPHP Since Jun 2Pushed 4y ago2 watchersCompare [ Source](https://github.com/hamstar/curl)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/shuber/curl)[ RSS](/packages/shuber-curl/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced 1mo ago READMEChangelogDependenciesVersions (2)Used By (2) curl ==== [](#curl) A basic CURL wrapper for PHP (see for more information about the libcurl extension for PHP) Installation ------------ [](#installation) Click the `download` link above or `git clone git://github.com/shuber/curl.git` Usage ----- [](#usage) ### Initialization [](#initialization) Simply require and initialize the `Curl` class like so: ``` require_once 'curl.php'; $curl = new Curl; ``` ### Performing a Request [](#performing-a-request) The Curl object supports 5 types of requests: HEAD, GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE. You must specify a url to request and optionally specify an associative array or string of variables to send along with it. ``` $response = $curl->head($url, $vars = array()); $response = $curl->get($url, $vars = array()); # The Curl object will append the array of $vars to the $url as a query string $response = $curl->post($url, $vars = array()); $response = $curl->put($url, $vars = array()); $response = $curl->delete($url, $vars = array()); ``` To use a custom request methods, you can call the `request` method: ``` $response = $curl->request('YOUR_CUSTOM_REQUEST_TYPE', $url, $vars = array()); ``` All of the built in request methods like `put` and `get` simply wrap the `request` method. For example, the `post` method is implemented like: ``` function post($url, $vars = array()) { return $this->request('POST', $url, $vars); } ``` Examples: ``` $response = $curl->get('google.com?q=test'); # The Curl object will append '&some_variable=some_value' to the url $response = $curl->get('google.com?q=test', array('some_variable' => 'some_value')); $response = $curl->post('test.com/posts', array('title' => 'Test', 'body' => 'This is a test')); ``` All requests return a CurlResponse object (see below) or false if an error occurred. You can access the error string with the `$curl->error()` method. ### The CurlResponse Object [](#the-curlresponse-object) A normal CURL request will return the headers and the body in one response string. This class parses the two and places them into separate properties. For example ``` $response = $curl->get('google.com'); echo $response->body; # A string containing everything in the response except for the headers print_r($response->headers); # An associative array containing the response headers ``` Which would display something like ``` Google.com Some more html... Array ( [Http-Version] => 1.0 [Status-Code] => 200 [Status] => 200 OK [Cache-Control] => private [Content-Type] => text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 [Date] => Wed, 07 May 2008 21:43:48 GMT [Server] => gws [Connection] => close ) ``` The CurlResponse class defines the magic [\_\_toString()](http://php.net/__toString) method which will return the response body, so `echo $response` is the same as `echo $response->body` ### Cookie Sessions [](#cookie-sessions) By default, cookies will be stored in a file called `curl_cookie.txt`. You can change this file's name by setting it like this ``` $curl->cookie_file = 'some_other_filename'; ``` This allows you to maintain a session across requests ### Basic Configuration Options [](#basic-configuration-options) You can easily set the referer or user-agent ``` $curl->referer = 'http://google.com'; $curl->user_agent = 'some user agent string'; ``` You may even set these headers manually if you wish (see below) ### Setting Custom Headers [](#setting-custom-headers) You can set custom headers to send with the request ``` $curl->headers['Host'] = 12.345.678.90; $curl->headers['Some-Custom-Header'] = 'Some Custom Value'; ``` ### Setting Custom CURL request options [](#setting-custom-curl-request-options) By default, the `Curl` object will follow redirects. You can disable this by setting: ``` $curl->follow_redirects = false; ``` You can set/override many different options for CURL requests (see the [curl\_setopt documentation](http://php.net/curl_setopt) for a list of them) ``` # any of these will work $curl->options['AUTOREFERER'] = true; $curl->options['autoreferer'] = true; $curl->options['CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER'] = true; $curl->options['curlopt_autoreferer'] = true; ``` Testing ------- [](#testing) Uses [ztest](http://github.com/jaz303/ztest), simply download it to `path/to/curl/test/ztest` (or anywhere else in your php include\_path) Then run `test/runner.php` Contact ------- [](#contact) Problems, comments, and suggestions all welcome: ### Health Score 42 — FairBetter than 90% of packages Maintenance20 Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained Popularity49 Moderate usage in the ecosystem Community22 Small or concentrated contributor base Maturity63 Established project with proven stability 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. 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