use of cURL for multiple transactions

[sfullman]

Hi,

I have cURL installed on my system and have used for years to make credit card transactions, here's example code:

$ch = curl_init("https://secure1.merchantmanager.com/ccgateway.asp");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
// $urlstring is the credit card information
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $urlstring);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, "https://secured.com/~fxxxx/golf/checkout.php");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

Now I'm working on doing a batch process which will post multiple transactions. Do I need to do curl_close(), and then reopen curl, or can I simply do:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $urlstring); //i.e. a new value for the new transaction
$data= curl_exec($ch)

for each additional transaction?

thanks for your advice,
Sam Fullman

[Weedpacket]

I'd answer this right off, but I suddenly realised I haven't actually done that precise thing (multiple requests per session). So to answer I would have had to go to PHP's documentation on the functions, and cURL's own documentation, and maybe tried it out myself to see what happened.

[sfullman]

[Added 2004-07-21:]
SamIt did work! I was able to call curl repeatedly by just resetting the form post option, and re-executing the object I created. I assume that's a time saver but curl has been great anyway. HTH someone else.

You calling me lazy? :-) I will try this out because I have something which can do it, however thought someone had a quick answer. I will post on this thread when I know the answer specifically.