Installing/Configuring
If you're dense like I am, spare yourself the trouble on an Ubuntu system (probably Debian too) and...
$ sudo apt-get php5-curl
Then feel dumb, but not as dumb as me.
Installation
To use PHP's cURL support you must also compile PHP --with-curl[=DIR] where DIR is the location of the directory containing the lib and include directories. In the "include" directory there should be a folder named "curl" which should contain the easy.h and curl.h files. There should be a file named libcurl.a located in the "lib" directory. Beginning with PHP 4.3.0 you can configure PHP to use cURL for URL streams --with-curlwrappers.
Note: Note to Win32 Users
In order to enable this module on a Windows environment, libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll must be present in your PATH. You don't need libcurl.dll from the cURL site.
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regs at voidship dot net
23-Sep-2008 05:45
23-Sep-2008 05:45
Anonymous
21-Aug-2008 01:23
21-Aug-2008 01:23
@comments at adstation-systems dot com
You never need to compile at windows (unless you want to play with it). So it's not confusing at all.
comments at adstation-systems dot com
09-Aug-2008 04:23
09-Aug-2008 04:23
You may be confused, as I was, by the instructions for installing cURL in php. The instruction "To use PHP's cURL support you must also compile PHP --with-curl[=DIR]..." was murky to me, since I didn't compile php when I installed it. I just copied all of the necessary files to the correct folders as described very clearly in the php manual.
I am using Windows XP and Apache with php 5.1.6. In this situation, and it may apply to php versions of 5.0 and later, all one needs to do is remove the ";" from the front of the directive extension=php_curl.dll. You should also check to make certain that libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll are in your php directory with the other dll's. This directory should already be in you path, so the instruction to put them in you path is not critical.
You can then run phpinfo() and you should see a heading for curl in the listing.
Succinctly, my installation of cURL consisted of removing the semi-colon in front of the ;extension=php_curl.dll line in php.ini, saving php.ini and restarting Apache. You may wish to try this if you are using php 5.0 and later and are having difficulty understanding the instructions on the cURL installation page at php.net
You might also find the information at http://curl.phptrack.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=52 useful.
rohanshenoy at w3hobbyist dot com
21-Jul-2008 05:21
21-Jul-2008 05:21
If you are using WAMPserver, you can enable the cURL extensions by
Left-click on WAMPserver tray icon>PHP>PHP extensions> Check php_curl.
Its already loaded on your disk, you have to activate it.
Christopher McCulloh
18-Jul-2008 04:40
18-Jul-2008 04:40
If you are using XAMPP (http://www.apachefriends.org/en/index.html) all you have to do is uncomment this line (line 582):
extension=php_curl.dll
in the xampp\apache\bin\php.ini file.