Posted on 18 May 2011. Tags: curl, PHP
Introduction
PHP supports libcurl, a library created by Daniel Stenberg, that allows you to connect and communicate to many different types of servers with many different types of protocols. libcurl currently supports the http, https, ftp, gopher, telnet, dict, file, and ldap protocols. libcurl also supports HTTPS certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading (this can also be done with PHP’s ftp extension), HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, and user+password authentication.

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Posted in PHP
Posted on 10 June 2009. Tags: curl, register global
Setting up cURL my linux server it was no problem at all, but I had a heck of a time getting cURL to work properly on my Windows test box with PHP and Apache. There are a lot of tricks scattered around on the web so here is my list of notes: Read the full story
Posted in PHP, Plesk
Posted on 26 August 2008. Tags: curl
After the Mashed Museum day yesterday, I finally got in gear to see what the OpenCalais service could do to enrich the tags upon our blog post archives and forthcoming posts. To do this I used two separate plugins that have already been written and tested out by others (i’ll write about this in a separate post). However, to get this to work, I had to get the Curl library working on our main server (backup already functions) and to do this required a clean install of curl. So first off, I’ll be techie and explain how to get curl working on your linux box post installation of apache and PHP. Most of the articles I found talked about doing this prior to installing PHP. Read the full story
Posted in Linux