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curl_exec
(PHP 4 >= 4.0.2, PHP 5)
curl_exec Perform a cURL session

Description

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mixed curl_exec ( resource $ch )


Execute the given cURL session.
This function should be called after initializing a cURL session and all the options for the session
are set.

Parameters

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ch
A cURL handle returned by curl_init().

Return Values

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Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure. However, if the CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER option is


set, it will return the result on success, FALSE on failure.

Examples

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<?php
// create a new cURL resource
$ch = curl_init();
// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.example.com/");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
// grab URL and pass it to the browser
curl_exec($ch);
// close cURL resource, and free up system resources
curl_close($ch);
?>

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See Also
curl_multi_exec() - Run the sub-connections of the current cURL handle

User Contributed Notes

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curl_exec - [26 notes]

David from Code2Design.com

3 years ago

Just in case anyone is looking for a a couple of simple functions [to help automate cURL
processes for POST and GET queries] I thought I'd post these.
<?php
/**
* Send a POST requst using cURL
* @param string $url to request
* @param array $post values to send
* @param array $options for cURL
* @return string
*/
function curl_post($url, array $post = NULL, array $options = array())
{
$defaults = array(
CURLOPT_POST => 1,
CURLOPT_HEADER => 0,
CURLOPT_URL => $url,
CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT => 1,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1,
CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE => 1,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 4,
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => http_build_query($post)
);
$ch = curl_init();

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trigger_error(curl_error($ch));
}
curl_close($ch);
return $result;
}
/**
* Send a GET requst using cURL
* @param string $url to request
* @param array $get values to send
* @param array $options for cURL
* @return string
*/
function curl_get($url, array $get = NULL, array $options = array())
{
$defaults = array(
CURLOPT_URL => $url. (strpos($url, '?') === FALSE ? '?' : '').
http_build_query($get),
CURLOPT_HEADER => 0,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => TRUE,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 4
);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($ch, ($options + $defaults));
if( ! $result = curl_exec($ch))
{
trigger_error(curl_error($ch));
}
curl_close($ch);
return $result;
}
?>

nagyp at hunaxon dot hu

10 years ago

fyi:
It returns false if there's an error while executing the curl session, no matter how
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER is set.

ppruett at webengr dot com

11 years ago

fyi - if you are having problems getting a


webpage to display in your webpage with
curl_setopt(CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
due to version bugginess perhaps,
you may can use output control functions
like this to show a web page
inside your webpage:
<html><head><title>whatever</title></head>
<body>
<script language="php">
$ch = curl_init("http://www.cocoavillage.com/");
// use output buffering instead of returntransfer -itmaybebuggy
ob_start();

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$retrievedhtmlthe
= ob_get_contents();
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ob_end_clean();
// if you intend to print this page with meta tags, better clear out any expiration tag
//
$result = preg_replace('/(?s)<meta http-equiv="Expires"[^>]*>/i', '', $retrievedhtml);
// for now I just want what is between the body tags so need
// somehow cut the header footer
$bodyandend = stristr($retrievedhtml,"<body");
// not needed- $positionstartbodystring = strlen($retrievedhtml)-strlen($bodyandend);
$positionendstartbodytag = strpos($bodyandend,">") + 1;
// got to change all to lowercase temporarily
// because end body may be upperlowercasemix
// to bad strirstr does not exist
$temptofindposition=strtolower($bodyandend);
$positionendendbodytag=strpos($temptofindposition,"</body");
//now to get the endbetween body tags
$grabbedbody=substr($bodyandend,
$positionendstartbodytag,
$positionendendbodytag);
//be sure to fix syntax broke by display on phpwebsite... like above line
print("$grabbedbody");
</script>
</body></html>
tada

tolas777 at gmail dot com

2 years ago

I was having a problem, for almost a week, of curl_exec() freezing/hanging when I made a
request with it to a page that spends over an hour converting a large video file, and only
afterwards sends control-data back to the calling script.
I'm using windows 7, WampServer-2.1d-64.exe, PHP 5.3.4, libcurl-7.21.3.
Here's the final solution;
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel-of-haxx.se> wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Tolas Anon wrote:
>
>>> It is also very easy for an application to enable the options as I've
>>> shown.
>>
>> Just not for the platforms i use, apparently.. :(
>
> Why not? A quick search for "tcp keepalive windows" shows this:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms819735.aspx
This fixed my problem in the simple test AND in my application!
No need to send keep-alive bytes on the text/html level either.
I just added the "KeepAliveTime" setting with windows 7 regedit.exe in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/services/Tcpip, as a
REG_DWORD value, set it to decimal 25000 (so 25 seconds), rebooted,
and it all works as i want it now..
Note that windows registry entries key names are case-sensitive, wrong
casing and they'll be deleted on restart.

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-----------------------------------------------------(now useless) details at:


http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2011-02/0101.html
http://readlist.com/lists/lists.php.net/php-general/16/81195.html

ivanargulo at NOSPAM gmail dot com

3 years ago

If having problems with special chars or entities (like , , , etc.), using the ISO
encode, just decode the values given with the function utf8_decode().
For example:
The returned string is the following:
<xml><name>Ivn</name></xml>
Using utf8_decode, the result in ISO is
<xml><name>Ivn</name></xml>

colins at infofind dot com

11 years ago

Checking the source, curl_exec seems to return FALSE on failure, TRUE on success (unless
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER is set 1, and then it returns the returned data).

csaba at alum dot mit dot edu

12 years ago

If you retrieve a web page and print it (so you can see it in your browser), and the page
has an expiration, this expiration now applies to MyProgram.php and next time your
program/page is called, even if it's grabbing a different web page, it will show what it
just displayed. In Netscape you can get rid of this by going into Edit, Options, Advanced,
Cache, and clear out the Disk Cache. But this is really annoying after short order. The
following prevents the above scenario:
<?php
function GetCurlPage ($pageSpec) {
$ch = curl_init($pageSpec);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$tmp = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
// if you intend to print this page, better clear out expiration tag
$tmp = preg_replace('/(?s)<meta http-equiv="Expires"[^>]*>/i', '', $tmp);
return $tmp;
}
?>

bertram dot pereira at gmail dot com

11 months ago

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CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER Option
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
Bert

roman dot ivasyuk at gmail dot com

5 years ago

<?php
class CurlRequest
{
private $ch;
/**
* Init curl session
*
* $params = array('url' => '',
*
'host' => '',
*
'header' => '',
*
'method' => '',
*
'referer' => '',
*
'cookie' => '',
*
'post_fields' => '',
*
['login' => '',]
*
['password' => '',]
*
'timeout' => 0
*
);
*/
public function init($params)
{
$this->ch = curl_init();
$user_agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U;
Windows NT 5.1; ru; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061206 Firefox/1.5.0.9';
$header = array(
"Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,
text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5",
"Accept-Language: ru-ru,ru;q=0.7,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3",
"Accept-Charset: windows-1251,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7",
"Keep-Alive: 300");
if (isset($params['host']) && $params['host'])
$header[]="Host: ".$host;
if (isset($params['header']) && $params['header']) $header[]=$params['header'];
@curl_setopt ( $this -> ch , CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER , 1 );
@curl_setopt ( $this -> ch , CURLOPT_VERBOSE , 1 );
@curl_setopt ( $this -> ch , CURLOPT_HEADER , 1 );
if ($params['method'] == "HEAD") @curl_setopt($this -> ch,CURLOPT_NOBODY,1);
@curl_setopt ( $this -> ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
@curl_setopt ( $this -> ch , CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header );
if ($params['referer'])
@curl_setopt ($this -> ch , CURLOPT_REFERER,
$params['referer'] );
@curl_setopt ( $this -> ch , CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $user_agent);
if ($params['cookie'])
@curl_setopt ($this -> ch , CURLOPT_COOKIE,
$params['cookie']);
if ( $params['method'] == "POST" )
{

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}
@curl_setopt( $this -> ch, CURLOPT_URL, $params['url']);
@curl_setopt ( $this -> ch , CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0 );
@curl_setopt ( $this -> ch , CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0 );
if (isset($params['login']) & isset($params['password']))
@curl_setopt($this -> ch ,
CURLOPT_USERPWD,$params['login'].':'.$params['password']);
@curl_setopt ( $this -> ch , CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $params['timeout']);
}
/**
* Make curl request
*
* @return array 'header','body','curl_error','http_code','last_url'
*/
public function exec()
{
$response = curl_exec($this->ch);
$error = curl_error($this->ch);
$result = array( 'header' => '',
'body' => '',
'curl_error' => '',
'http_code' => '',
'last_url' => '');
if ( $error != "" )
{
$result['curl_error'] = $error;
return $result;
}
$header_size = curl_getinfo($this->ch,CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE);
$result['header'] = substr($response, 0, $header_size);
$result['body'] = substr( $response, $header_size );
$result['http_code'] = curl_getinfo($this -> ch,CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
$result['last_url'] = curl_getinfo($this -> ch,CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL);
return $result;
}
}
?>
Example of use:
<?php
..........
try
{
$params = array('url' => 'http://www.google.com',
'host' => '',
'header' => '',
'method' => 'GET', // 'POST','HEAD'
'referer' => '',
'cookie' => '',
'post_fields' => '', // 'var1=value&var2=value
'timeout' => 20
);
$this->curl->init($params);

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ifthe
($result['http_code']!='200')
throw new Exception("HTTP Code
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=
".$result['http_code']);
if (!$result['body'])
throw new Exception("Body of file is empty");
...............
}
catch (Exception $e)
{
echo $e->getMessage();
}
?>

Jrgen Tjern

8 years ago

If you've got problems with curl_exec not working, you should rather check curl_errno and
curl_error than using commandline curl, like so:
(since this is easier, and also allows you to check for errors runtime, which is a vital
part of any well-design piece of code. ;)
<?php
$creq = curl_init();
curl_setopt($creq, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.foo.internal");
curl_exec($creq);
/* To quote curl_errno documentation:
Returns the error number for the last cURL operation on the resource ch, or 0 (zero) if
no error occurred. */
if (curl_errno($creq)) {
print curl_error($creq);
} else {
curl_close($creq);
}
?>

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Florian Holzhauer

5 years ago

If you use apache2+mod_chroot with php5, add


LoadFile /lib/libnss_dns.so.2
to your mod_chroot config - this should resolver problems.

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sharky at im dot net dot ua

11 years ago

If You want to hide result which return curl_exec


Use bufeered output.
For example:
----------------------$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"http://url.com/index.php");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "a=3&b=5");
//--- Start buffering
ob_start();
curl_exec ($ch);
//--- End buffering and clean output

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($ch);
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curl_close
------------------

maybe it help somebody :))


---------Best Regards
Sharky

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ggarmento at yahoo dot com

1 year ago

I am a more tenacious designer than I am a code monkey; but the sample curl function ended
an exhaustive four hour search.
I needed to execute a Search URL in a WordPress 3 page in order to return some Real Estate
results and my "unnamed" shared server had fopen and load() shut down.
The code below was the only code in the whole page; the WP3 theme wrapped around the search
results like a mother and child at feeding time.
[code]
<?php
// create a new cURL resource
$ch = curl_init();
// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.example.com/");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
// grab URL and pass it to the browser
curl_exec($ch);
// close cURL resource, and free up system resources
curl_close($ch);
?>
[code]
Whoot!!

petermiller1986[nospam] at gmail dot com

3 years ago

so far i have not come across any code or library file that will
extract cookie information from a http header, so i've written
one.
there are two files:
file1.php - acts as server and sets the cookies
file2.php - acts as browser and retrieves the cookies set by file1
/*****file1.php****/
<?php
/*set 3 cookies at the end of the execution of this script*/
setcookie("cookie1","cookie 1 data", time() - 123123);
setcookie("cookie2","cookie 2 data", time() + 54326);
setcookie("cookie3","cookie 3 data", time());
?>

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<?php
$url = "http://[host][uri]/file1.php"; /*insert desired host and
uri*/
$browser_id = "some crazy browser";
$curl_handle = curl_init();
$options = array
(
CURLOPT_URL=>$url,
CURLOPT_HEADER=>true,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER=>true,
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION=>true,
CURLOPT_USERAGENT=>$browser_id
);
curl_setopt_array($curl_handle,$options);
$server_output = curl_exec($curl_handle);
curl_close($curl_handle);
/*construct the http search pattern for cookies*/
$pattern = "/Set-Cookie:";
$pattern .= "(?P<name>.*?)=(?P<value>.*?); ";
$pattern .= "expires=(?P<expiry_dayname>\w+), ";
$pattern .= "(?P<expiry_day>\d+)(?P<expiry_month>\w+)-(?P<expiry_year>\d+) ";
$pattern .= "(?P<expiry_hour>\d+):
(?P<expiry_minute>\d+):(?P<expiry_second>\d+) ";
$pattern .= "(?P<expiry_zone>\w+)/";
preg_match_all($pattern,$server_output,$matches);
$table_string = "
<h1>cookie information table</h1>
<table border='1'>
<tr>
<td>cookie name</td>
<td>value</td>
<td>expiry day</td>
<td>expiry date</td>
<td>expiry time</td>
<td>expiry timezone</td>
</tr>
";
$i=0;
foreach($matches[name] as $cookie_name)
{
$table_string .= "
<tr>
<td>$cookie_name</td>
<td>{$matches[value][$i]}</td>
<td>{$matches[expiry_dayname][$i]}</td>
<td>{$matches[expiry_day][$i]}{$matches[expiry_month][$i]}{$matches[expiry_year][$i]}</td>

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<td>{$matches[expiry_zone][$i]}</td>
</tr>
";
$i++;
}
$table_string .= "</table>";
echo $table_string;
?>
/****end file2.php**/
i based this code on the following http header:
(obtained by going: echo $server_output; in file2.php)
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:10:07 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.11
OpenSSL/0.9.8i PHP/5.2.9 X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.9
Set-Cookie: cookie1=cookie+1+data; expires=Wed,
29-Jul-2009 03:23:27 GMT Set-Cookie
cookie2=cookie+2+data; expires=Wed, 29-Jul-2009 03:23:27
GMT Set-Cookie: cookie3=cookie+3+data; expires=Wed,
29-Jul-2009 03:23:27 GMT Content-Length: 196
Content-Type: text/html
if your header differs from this one then $pattern in file2.php
will need to be modified accordingly. hopefully this code will save
you a lot of time though!

Mark Omohundro, ajamyajax.com

4 years ago

Just a simple curl_exec() example with a twist: I use the familiar http response status code
returned from curl_getinfo() to put either data, or a custom error message + curl_error()
into a single string. I find this useful when the response ends up in a <div> or <span>
tag.
<?php
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
...
$output = curl_exec($ch);
$info = curl_getinfo($ch);
if ($output === false || $info['http_code'] != 200) {
$output = "No cURL data returned for $url [". $info['http_code']. "]";
if (curl_error($ch))
$output .= "\n". curl_error($ch);
}
else {
// 'OK' status; format $output data if necessary here:
...
}
// then return or display the single string $output
?>
lmshad at wp dot pl dot foo dot bar

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CurlTool::downloadFile('http://download.gadu-gadu.pl/gg77.exe', 'c:/');
<?php
error_reporting(E_STRICT | E_ALL);
class CurlTool {
public static $userAgents = array(
'FireFox3' => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pl; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906
Firefox/3.0',
'GoogleBot' => 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com
/bot.html)',
'IE7' => 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)',
'Netscape' => 'Mozilla/4.8 [en] (Windows NT 6.0; U)',
'Opera' => 'Opera/9.25 (Windows NT 6.0; U; en)'
);
public static $options = array(
CURLOPT_USERAGENT => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pl; rv:1.9)
Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0',
CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER => true,
CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE => '',
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true
);
private static $proxyServers = array();
private static $proxyCount = 0;
private static $currentProxyIndex = 0;
public static function addProxyServer($url) {
self::$proxyServers[] = $url;
++self::$proxyCount;
}
public static function fetchContent($url, $verbose = false) {
if (($curl = curl_init($url)) == false) {
throw new Exception("curl_init error for url $url.");
}
if (self::$proxyCount > 0) {
$proxy = self::$proxyServers[self::$currentProxyIndex++ % self::$proxyCount];
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_PROXY, $proxy);
if ($verbose === true) {
echo "Reading $url [Proxy: $proxy] ... ";
}
} else if ($verbose === true) {
echo "Reading $url ... ";
}
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt_array($curl, self::$options);
$content = curl_exec($curl);
if ($content === false) {
throw new Exception("curl_exec error for url $url.");
}
curl_close($curl);

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$content = preg_replace('#\n+#', ' ', $content);


$content = preg_replace('#\s+#', ' ', $content);
return $content;
}
public static function downloadFile($url, $fileName, $verbose = false) {
if (($curl = curl_init($url)) == false) {
throw new Exception("curl_init error for url $url.");
}
if (self::$proxyCount > 0) {
$proxy = self::$proxyServers[self::$currentProxyIndex++ % self::$proxyCount];
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_PROXY, $proxy);
if ($verbose === true) {
echo "Downloading $url [Proxy: $proxy] ... ";
}
} else if ($verbose === true) {
echo "Downloading $url ... ";
}
curl_setopt_array($curl, self::$options);
if (substr($fileName, -1) == '/') {
$targetDir = $fileName;
$fileName = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), 'c_');
}
if (($fp = fopen($fileName, "wb")) === false) {
throw new Exception("fopen error for filename $fileName");
}
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, true);
if (curl_exec($curl) === false) {
fclose($fp);
unlink($fileName);
throw new Exception("curl_exec error for url $url.");
} elseif (isset($targetDir)) {
$eurl = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL);
preg_match('#^.*/(.+)$#', $eurl, $match);
fclose($fp);
rename($fileName, "$targetDir{$match[1]}");
$fileName = "$targetDir{$match[1]}";
} else {
fclose($fp);
}
curl_close($curl);
if ($verbose === true) {
echo "Done.\n";
}
return $fileName;
}
}

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Great class Roman - just one fix:


Replace the following line:
<?php
if (isset($params['host']) && $params['host'])
?>
with this:
<?php
if (isset($params['host']) && $params['host'])
?>

$header[]="Host: ".$host;

$header[]="Host: " . $params['host'];

CURL automatically creates the host parameter (since it is required for HTTP/1.1 requests),
so you don't need to set it. But if you created a custom host parameter, the above bug would
cause a '400 Bad Request' response due to invalid host specified.
Also when copying and pasting the class code, make sure that no line breaks occur (for
example in the $header and $user_agent definitions etc.). It will still be valid PHP, but
the HTTP request will not be valid, and you may get a '400 Bad Request' response from the
server.
It took me a little playing around with an HTTP Sniffer before I finally got an HTTP POST
request fully working!
Thanks,
Alan

me at lawrencemok dot com

5 years ago

Note that when you use CURL to POST things....e.g:


curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "string=This is a string");
The data part (e.g. "This is a string") inside the 3rd parameter should be applied with
urlencode()
Otherwise, if you intend to send a string like "%2F", you will end up with a "/" on the
receiving end, which can cause troubles. (e.g. serialize() data cannot be unserialize()
becase of the change in string length).

shanto at ultimawebsolutions dot com

5 years ago

A function to retrieve the status code of an HTTP request using CURL:


function getHttpResponseCode($url)
{
$ch = @curl_init($url);
@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, TRUE);
@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, TRUE);
@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, FALSE);
@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$status = array();
$response = @curl_exec($ch);
preg_match('/HTTP\/.* ([0-9]+) .*/', $response, $status);
return $status[1];

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If you see a "0" at the end of the output, you might want to switch to HTTP/1.0:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, 1.0);

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Thank you for sharing this.

6 years ago

I was wondering why my result was 1.

To get around this in a safe way, this is how I check if the result is valid.
$ch = curl_init(); /// initialize a cURL session
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$xmlResponse = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
if (!is_string($xmlResponse) || !strlen($xmlResponse)) {
return $this->_set_error( "Failure Contacting Server" );
} else {
return $xmlResponse;
}

Anonymous

6 years ago

Be careful when using curl_exec() and the CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER option. According to the
manual and assorted documentation:
Set CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER to TRUE to return the transfer as a string of the return value of
curl_exec() instead of outputting it out directly.
When retrieving a document with no content (ie. 0 byte file), curl_exec() will return
bool(true), not an empty string. I've not seen any mention of this in the manual.
Example code to reproduce this:
<?php
// fictional URL to an existing file with no data in it (ie. 0 byte file)
$url = 'http://www.example.com/empty_file.txt';
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
// execute and return string (this should be an empty string '')
$str = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
// the value of $str is actually bool(true), not empty string ''
var_dump($str);
?>

sybren at thirdtower dot com

10 years ago

If you see a "0" at the end of the output, you might want to switch to HTTP/1.0:

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2 years ago

[I was having a problem with] URLs not resolving I also tried cURL on the command line for a
non-SSL request. It failed. wget failed. Then, I realized my ID is 10T.
Remember kids, if you go from DHCP to static, update your DNS server list!

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landon at phazeforward dot com

8 years ago

If your curl installation is not compiled with SSL support you will beat your head against a
wall when trying to figure out why curl_exec() is failing to fail or do anything else ...
If you run into a situation where your call to curl_exec is not returning anything you
should try the same call with the command line curl

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fifa_2k [-at-] sina [-dot-] com

8 years ago

With php 4.3.9 or higher,you can upload file to ftp server on win32 system
<?php
function curl_upload($src) {
$fn = basename($src);
$dest = "ftp://user:[email protected]/incoming/$fn";
$ch = curl_init();
$fp = fopen($src,"r");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_UPLOAD, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 300);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLE_OPERATION_TIMEOUTED, 300);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $dest);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, filesize($src));
curl_exec($ch);
fclose ($fp);
$errorMsg = '';
$errorMsg = curl_error($ch);
$errorNumber = curl_errno($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $errorNumber;
}
?>
lower version php (I tried on php 4.3.3) on win32 can't do this and may cause php crash even
you use CURLOPT_READFUNCTION.

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