Installation of cURL Libraries

brij_theinvader

hi,
Whenever i run the script containing cURL commands,in my Easy PHP editor, it shows me error.
so, how can i install cURL libraries into my Easy PHP editor. Finally i want to run the cURL commands. Please Help.

also if it is not possible to include cURL libraries into Easy PHP, then show me some other ways of running cURL commands. I have PHP 5.1 installed.

Waiting for reply.

Thanks and Regards,
Brij.

bradgrafelman

brij_theinvader wrote:
then show me some other ways of running cURL commands. I have PHP 5.1 installed.

On Windows?

If so, simply find your php.ini file and uncomment the extension line for php_curl.dll and restart your webserver.

brij_theinvader

okay i did this and started curl.
Now i executed this code 1st script:
<?php
//
// A very simple PHP example that sends a HTTP POST to a remote site
//

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"http://127.0.0.1:8080/curltesting.php");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,"usname=brij&password=brijguru");

curl_exec ($ch);

curl_close ($ch);
?>

I got blank page as output .
in curltesting.php the following codes were written :

<?php

$usname=$POST['usname'];
$password=$POST['password'];
echo $usname ." ". $password;

So what do u suppose , what did the 1st script did?

bradgrafelman

There's two things you need to do:

Use [man]curl_setopt/man to enable CUROPT_RETURNTRANSFER (so that you can retrieve the outputted data which is otherwise discarded).
Echo the returned value of [man]curl_exec[/man] (assuming it isn't FALSE, which means an error occurred).