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(PHP 4 >= 4.0.2, PHP 5)
curl_init — Initialize a cURL session
Initializes a new session and return a cURL handle for use with the curl_setopt(), curl_exec(), and curl_close() functions.
If provided, the CURLOPT_URL option will be set to its value. You can manually set this using the curl_setopt() function.
Returns a cURL handle on success, FALSE on errors.
Example #1 Initializing a new cURL session and fetching a web page
<?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); ?>
curl_getinfo
