cURL (curl, spider, flickr, httpclient)

Name:	cURL Support forum
Base name:	`curl`
Description:	cURL extension wrapper access remote Web resources
Related top rated classes:	curl, spider, flickr, httpclient
Version:	`1.2.0`
Required PHP version:	`4.4`
License:	Custom (specified in a license file)
All time users:	8387 users
All time rank:	89
Week users:	52 users
Week rank:	73

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Author

Name:	Richard Munroe is available for providing paid consulting. Contact Richard Munroe .
Published packages:	22 Browse this author's classes
Country:	United States - PHP jobs in United States
Home page:	`http://www.csworks.com/`
Age:	58
All time rank:	13
Week rank:	20

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HTTP

HTTP protocol clients, headers and cookies

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This class is an object oriented wrapper around the PHP cURL extension functions.

This cURL extension is often used as HTTP client to access to remote Web pages or Web services via HTTP like those using the SOAP protocol.

The class provides functions to set the cURL extension options, execute HTTP requests and retrieve the response headers and bodies.

The documentation is embedded in the class source in the PHPDoc format, so it can be extracted and generated with tools that support this format.

This class is officially compatible with PHP 5.

User ratings

Ratings	Utility	Consistency	Documentation	Examples	Tests	Videos	Overall	Rank
All time:	`Good (80.3%)`	`Good (82.9%)`	`-`	`Good (80.3%)`	`-`	`-`	`Not sure (56.4%)`	862
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Packages needed by this class

Class	Dependency	Why it is needed
Structured Data Dumper	Required	Required by dumpState.php in examples.

Packages that need this class

Class	Dependency	Why it is needed
Download Images from Google	Required	I have used cURL to fetch Image paths from google
Feedburner API Class	Required	Uses this by default for hitting feedburner's REST services.
Fetch Site Info	Required	It is used to fecth information.
Flickr API Class	Required	Used to send request to flickr if cURL enabled on server
Paypal Instant Payment Notification	Required	Access Paypal IPN Verification
Paypal NVP	Required	Interact with Paypal
Paypal Payment Data Transfers	Required	Communication with Paypal

Trackback links

Link	Description
Building Spiders: Grab Data, Post Forms and Interact with Web Sites Automatically	One of the most useful and powerful things you can do with PHP is to create a programme which will simulate a web browser and can grab data, post data to forms and generally interact with other web sites - automatically...
PHP Addicted To Feedburner API Class	I was working on a PHP Flickr API Class (now finished, just working on examples and documentation) when Mint was released...
PHP Feedburner Class	I was working on a PHP Flickr API Class (now finished, just working on examples and documentation) when Mint was released. The class is paired with a CURL class coded by Dick Monroe. It does not require CURL, but uses it as the default method for hitting Feedburner...

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Applications that use this class

Link	Description
www.esplanner.com	ESPlanner web site
www.fladems.com	Florida Democratic Party website

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Files

File	Role	Description
`class.curl.php`	Class	curl base class and documentation
`dumpState.php`	Example	Server side of example file.
`example.class.curl.php`	Example	Simple example of use of the curl class.
`example1.class.curl.php`	Example	Client side example
`license.txt`	Lic.	Modified NetBSD license used here
`makedoc.sh`	Aux.	Generate the documentation using phpdoc

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