Simple cURL example
A simple example on how to use the cURL module to download a website or any other file.
You can find more cURL options on the related PHP manual page.
function curl_download($Url){ // is cURL installed yet? if (!function_exists('curl_init')){ die('Sorry cURL is not installed!'); } // OK cool - then let's create a new cURL resource handle $ch = curl_init(); // Now set some options (most are optional) // Set URL to download curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $Url); // Set a referer curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, "http://www.example.org/yay.htm"); // User agent curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "MozillaXYZ/1.0"); // Include header in result? (0 = yes, 1 = no) curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); // Should cURL return or print out the data? (true = return, false = print) curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); // Timeout in seconds curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10); // Download the given URL, and return output $output = curl_exec($ch); // Close the cURL resource, and free system resources curl_close($ch); return $output; }
Snippet Details
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AuthorJonas John
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LicensePublic Domain
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LanguagePHP
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Created04/27/2006
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Updated03/11/2011
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Tagshttp, network, example
print curl_download('http://www.example.org/');
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Older comments:
ds June 22, 2011 at 08:11
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moorie May 24, 2011 at 14:02
its working... no bug at all. Thanks a lot
Raju May 11, 2011 at 11:31
Hello boss,
I m totally confuse if came in chandigarh plz met with me
ok
I m totally confuse if came in chandigarh plz met with me
ok
Vabhav May 02, 2011 at 12:12
its really good And working n help me alot...
Jonas April 15, 2011 at 23:15
Thanks Rahul ;-)
Rahul April 12, 2011 at 13:24
Thank you so much, if you ever come down to bangalore, we can for a lunch :P !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
Bhushan March 30, 2011 at 04:52
very nice post its clear my all doughts.
Thanks
Thanks
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Kunal Mazumder September 28, 2010 at 23:51
Very handy and ready to use. Thanks
sandeep July 15, 2010 at 04:59
thanks alot, setting up all _setopt is compulsory ??
Natalie April 07, 2010 at 19:09
Thank you.
Sachin February 05, 2010 at 14:15
Good Article
Can i login with curl or post form values using curl.
Can i login with curl or post form values using curl.
Sam January 08, 2010 at 17:22
Thanks for example.
Niranjan: you can use eval(), but it hase some security issues...
Niranjan: you can use eval(), but it hase some security issues...
john December 10, 2009 at 16:25
Very helpful! Thank you!
Craig R Morton August 17, 2009 at 12:45
Many thanks, this worked well for me to check if I had cURL setup correctly on my machine. Perfect for a PHP beginner. :-)
Niranjan Ramakrishnan July 25, 2009 at 11:48
I'm trying to use curl to replace the includes in my code. I've run into a problem. Suppose I am trying to include foreign.php into my fiile native.php. Assume that foreign.php contains a variable $xyz. The include works fine, but I am unable to use $xyz inside native.php. In our system, register_globals is turned off. What is the way around this?
Chanon February 11, 2009 at 13:03
Thanks mate
This code and comment is really clear and useful for the beginner like me.
Great job!
This code and comment is really clear and useful for the beginner like me.
Great job!