cURL Simple Example in PHP:


cURL allows you to connect and communicate to many different types of servers with many different types of protocols.
PHP Supports libcurl.

Example:

<?php
        // initialize curl session
        $ch = curl_init();
       
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "example.com");  // set url      
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);//return the transfer as a string
        
        $output = curl_exec($ch);//output string


        // close curl session
        curl_close($ch);     
?>

What is cURL in PHP?

cURL allows you to connect and communicate to many different types of servers with many different types of protocols.
PHP Supports libcurl.

Requirements:
In order to use PHP's cURL functions you need to install the libcurl package.PHP 5.0.0 requires a libcurl version 7.10.5 or greater.

cURL Functions:
    curl_close : Close a cURL session.
    curl_errno: Return the last error number.
    curl_error: Return a string containing the last error for the current session.
    curl_exec: Perform a cURL session.
    curl_getinfo: Get information regarding a specific transfer.
    curl_init: Initialize a cURL session.
    curl_setopt_array: Set multiple options for a cURL transfer.
    curl_setopt: Set an option for a cURL transfer.
    curl_version: Gets cURL version information.