PHP Curl Class makes it easy to send HTTP requests and integrate with web APIs.
- โ๏ธ Installation
- ๐ Requirements
- ๐ Quick Start and Examples
- ๐ Available Methods
- ๐ Security
- ๐ ๏ธ Troubleshooting
- ๐งช Testing
- ๐ค Contributing
To install PHP Curl Class, run the following command:
composer require php-curl-class/php-curl-class
To install the latest commit version:
composer require php-curl-class/php-curl-class @dev
Installation instructions to use the composer
command can be found on https://github.com/composer/composer.
PHP Curl Class works with PHP 8.3, 8.2, 8.1, 8.0, and 7.4.
More examples are available under /examples.
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
use Curl\Curl;
$curl = new Curl();
$curl->get('https://www.example.com/');
if ($curl->error) {
echo 'Error: ' . $curl->errorMessage . "\n";
$curl->diagnose();
} else {
echo 'Response:' . "\n";
var_dump($curl->response);
}
// https://www.example.com/search?q=keyword
$curl = new Curl();
$curl->get('https://www.example.com/search', [
'q' => 'keyword',
]);
$curl = new Curl();
$curl->post('https://www.example.com/login/', [
'username' => 'myusername',
'password' => 'mypassword',
]);
$curl = new Curl();
$curl->setBasicAuthentication('username', 'password');
$curl->setUserAgent('MyUserAgent/0.0.1 (+https://www.example.com/bot.html)');
$curl->setReferrer('https://www.example.com/url?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com%2F');
$curl->setHeader('X-Requested-With', 'XMLHttpRequest');
$curl->setCookie('key', 'value');
$curl->get('https://www.example.com/');
if ($curl->error) {
echo 'Error: ' . $curl->errorMessage . "\n";
} else {
echo 'Response:' . "\n";
var_dump($curl->response);
}
var_dump($curl->requestHeaders);
var_dump($curl->responseHeaders);
$curl = new Curl();
$curl->setFollowLocation();
$curl->get('https://shortn.example.com/bHbVsP');
$curl = new Curl();
$curl->put('https://api.example.com/user/', [
'first_name' => 'Zach',
'last_name' => 'Borboa',
]);
$curl = new Curl();
$curl->patch('https://api.example.com/profile/', [
'image' => '@path/to/file.jpg',
]);
$curl = new Curl();
$curl->patch('https://api.example.com/profile/', [
'image' => new CURLFile('path/to/file.jpg'),
]);
$curl = new Curl();
$curl->delete('https://api.example.com/user/', [
'id' => '1234',
]);
// Enable all supported encoding types and download a file.
$curl = new Curl();
$curl->setOpt(CURLOPT_ENCODING , '');
$curl->download('https://www.example.com/file.bin', '/tmp/myfile.bin');
// Case-insensitive access to headers.
$curl = new Curl();
$curl->download('https://www.example.com/image.png', '/tmp/myimage.png');
echo $curl->responseHeaders['Content-Type'] . "\n"; // image/png
echo $curl->responseHeaders['CoNTeNT-TyPE'] . "\n"; // image/png
// Manual clean up.
$curl->close();
// Example access to curl object.
curl_set_opt($curl->curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1');
curl_close($curl->curl);
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
use Curl\MultiCurl;
// Requests in parallel with callback functions.
$multi_curl = new MultiCurl();
$multi_curl->success(function($instance) {
echo 'call to "' . $instance->url . '" was successful.' . "\n";
echo 'response:' . "\n";
var_dump($instance->response);
});
$multi_curl->error(function($instance) {
echo 'call to "' . $instance->url . '" was unsuccessful.' . "\n";
echo 'error code: ' . $instance->errorCode . "\n";
echo 'error message: ' . $instance->errorMessage . "\n";
});
$multi_curl->complete(function($instance) {
echo 'call completed' . "\n";
});
$multi_curl->addGet('https://www.google.com/search', [
'q' => 'hello world',
]);
$multi_curl->addGet('https://duckduckgo.com/', [
'q' => 'hello world',
]);
$multi_curl->addGet('https://www.bing.com/search', [
'q' => 'hello world',
]);
$multi_curl->start(); // Blocks until all items in the queue have been processed.
More examples are available under /examples.
Curl::__construct($base_url = null, $options = [])
Curl::__destruct()
Curl::__get($name)
Curl::afterSend($callback)
Curl::attemptRetry()
Curl::beforeSend($callback)
Curl::buildPostData($data)
Curl::call()
Curl::close()
Curl::complete($callback)
Curl::delete($url, $query_parameters = [], $data = [])
Curl::diagnose($return = false)
Curl::disableTimeout()
Curl::displayCurlOptionValue($option, $value = null)
Curl::download($url, $mixed_filename)
Curl::error($callback)
Curl::exec($ch = null)
Curl::execDone()
Curl::fastDownload($url, $filename, $connections = 4)
Curl::get($url, $data = [])
Curl::getAttempts()
Curl::getBeforeSendCallback()
Curl::getCompleteCallback()
Curl::getCookie($key)
Curl::getCurl()
Curl::getCurlErrorCode()
Curl::getCurlErrorMessage()
Curl::getDownloadCompleteCallback()
Curl::getDownloadFileName()
Curl::getErrorCallback()
Curl::getErrorCode()
Curl::getErrorMessage()
Curl::getFileHandle()
Curl::getHttpErrorMessage()
Curl::getHttpStatusCode()
Curl::getId()
Curl::getInfo($opt = null)
Curl::getJsonDecoder()
Curl::getOpt($option)
Curl::getOptions()
Curl::getRawResponse()
Curl::getRawResponseHeaders()
Curl::getRemainingRetries()
Curl::getRequestHeaders()
Curl::getResponse()
Curl::getResponseCookie($key)
Curl::getResponseCookies()
Curl::getResponseHeaders()
Curl::getRetries()
Curl::getRetryDecider()
Curl::getSuccessCallback()
Curl::getUrl()
Curl::getUserSetOptions()
Curl::getXmlDecoder()
Curl::head($url, $data = [])
Curl::isChildOfMultiCurl()
Curl::isCurlError()
Curl::isError()
Curl::isHttpError()
Curl::options($url, $data = [])
Curl::patch($url, $data = [])
Curl::post($url, $data = '', $follow_303_with_post = false)
Curl::progress($callback)
Curl::put($url, $data = [])
Curl::removeHeader($key)
Curl::reset()
Curl::search($url, $data = [])
Curl::setAutoReferer($auto_referer = true)
Curl::setAutoReferrer($auto_referrer = true)
Curl::setBasicAuthentication($username, $password = '')
Curl::setConnectTimeout($seconds)
Curl::setCookie($key, $value)
Curl::setCookieFile($cookie_file)
Curl::setCookieJar($cookie_jar)
Curl::setCookieString($string)
Curl::setCookies($cookies)
Curl::setDefaultDecoder($mixed = 'json')
Curl::setDefaultHeaderOut()
Curl::setDefaultJsonDecoder()
Curl::setDefaultTimeout()
Curl::setDefaultUserAgent()
Curl::setDefaultXmlDecoder()
Curl::setDigestAuthentication($username, $password = '')
Curl::setFile($file)
Curl::setFollowLocation($follow_location = true)
Curl::setForbidReuse($forbid_reuse = true)
Curl::setHeader($key, $value)
Curl::setHeaders($headers)
Curl::setInterface($interface)
Curl::setJsonDecoder($mixed)
Curl::setMaxFilesize($bytes)
Curl::setMaximumRedirects($maximum_redirects)
Curl::setOpt($option, $value)
Curl::setOpts($options)
Curl::setPort($port)
Curl::setProtocols($protocols)
Curl::setProxy($proxy, $port = null, $username = null, $password = null)
Curl::setProxyAuth($auth)
Curl::setProxyTunnel($tunnel = true)
Curl::setProxyType($type)
Curl::setRange($range)
Curl::setRedirectProtocols($redirect_protocols)
Curl::setReferer($referer)
Curl::setReferrer($referrer)
Curl::setRetry($mixed)
Curl::setStop($callback = null)
Curl::setTimeout($seconds)
Curl::setUrl($url, $mixed_data = '')
Curl::setUserAgent($user_agent)
Curl::setXmlDecoder($mixed)
Curl::stop()
Curl::success($callback)
Curl::unsetHeader($key)
Curl::unsetProxy()
Curl::verbose($on = true, $output = 'STDERR')
MultiCurl::__construct($base_url = null)
MultiCurl::__destruct()
MultiCurl::addCurl(Curl $curl)
MultiCurl::addDelete($url, $query_parameters = [], $data = [])
MultiCurl::addDownload($url, $mixed_filename)
MultiCurl::addGet($url, $data = [])
MultiCurl::addHead($url, $data = [])
MultiCurl::addOptions($url, $data = [])
MultiCurl::addPatch($url, $data = [])
MultiCurl::addPost($url, $data = '', $follow_303_with_post = false)
MultiCurl::addPut($url, $data = [])
MultiCurl::addSearch($url, $data = [])
MultiCurl::afterSend($callback)
MultiCurl::beforeSend($callback)
MultiCurl::close()
MultiCurl::complete($callback)
MultiCurl::disableTimeout()
MultiCurl::error($callback)
MultiCurl::getActiveCurls()
MultiCurl::getOpt($option)
MultiCurl::removeHeader($key)
MultiCurl::setAutoReferer($auto_referer = true)
MultiCurl::setAutoReferrer($auto_referrer = true)
MultiCurl::setBasicAuthentication($username, $password = '')
MultiCurl::setConcurrency($concurrency)
MultiCurl::setConnectTimeout($seconds)
MultiCurl::setCookie($key, $value)
MultiCurl::setCookieFile($cookie_file)
MultiCurl::setCookieJar($cookie_jar)
MultiCurl::setCookieString($string)
MultiCurl::setCookies($cookies)
MultiCurl::setDigestAuthentication($username, $password = '')
MultiCurl::setFile($file)
MultiCurl::setFollowLocation($follow_location = true)
MultiCurl::setForbidReuse($forbid_reuse = true)
MultiCurl::setHeader($key, $value)
MultiCurl::setHeaders($headers)
MultiCurl::setInterface($interface)
MultiCurl::setJsonDecoder($mixed)
MultiCurl::setMaximumRedirects($maximum_redirects)
MultiCurl::setOpt($option, $value)
MultiCurl::setOpts($options)
MultiCurl::setPort($port)
MultiCurl::setProxies($proxies)
MultiCurl::setProxy($proxy, $port = null, $username = null, $password = null)
MultiCurl::setProxyAuth($auth)
MultiCurl::setProxyTunnel($tunnel = true)
MultiCurl::setProxyType($type)
MultiCurl::setRange($range)
MultiCurl::setRateLimit($rate_limit)
MultiCurl::setReferer($referer)
MultiCurl::setReferrer($referrer)
MultiCurl::setRequestTimeAccuracy()
MultiCurl::setRetry($mixed)
MultiCurl::setTimeout($seconds)
MultiCurl::setUrl($url, $mixed_data = '')
MultiCurl::setUserAgent($user_agent)
MultiCurl::setXmlDecoder($mixed)
MultiCurl::start()
MultiCurl::stop()
MultiCurl::success($callback)
MultiCurl::unsetHeader($key)
MultiCurl::unsetProxy()
MultiCurl::verbose($on = true, $output = 'STDERR')
See SECURITY for security considerations.
See TROUBLESHOOTING for help troubleshooting.
See TESTING for testing information.
- Check for open issues or open a new issue to start a discussion around a bug or feature.
- Fork the repository on GitHub to start making your changes.
- Write one or more tests for the new feature or that expose the bug.
- Make code changes to implement the feature or fix the bug.
- Send a pull request to get your changes merged and published.