Using CURL liberary in php

Using CURL liberary in php

The curl liberary in php is very powerfull liberary to get the remote sarver result. Example:s you can get facebook users photo, google map, gmail, and various webservice.
Code of curl liberary using basic:
<?php $sturl ="http://localhost/post.php"; $ch = curl_init($sturl); //start initial curl curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST,true); //define method of data transfer curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$data); //post field curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true); //get the result in a variable array curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,10); //time out processing $res = curl_exec($ch); //execute the curl and store in a variable $res $resinfo = curl_getinfo($ch); //get the curl ingormation curl_close($ch); //close the curl process var_dump($res); //dumping the result ?>

Example code to get facebook user photo:
 <?php $facebook_uid = md.mahediazad; //faebook user id $sourcecode = save_facebook_profile_photo($facebook_uid); print_r($sourcecode); file_put_contents("images/".$facebook_uid.".jpg", file_get_contents($sourcecode[url])); //this is name of new file that i save function save_facebook_profile_photo( $id ) { $options = array( CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, // return web page CURLOPT_HEADER => false, // dont return headers CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true, // follow redirects CURLOPT_ENCODING => "", // handle all encodings CURLOPT_USERAGENT => "spider", // who am i CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER => true, // set referer on redirect CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 120, // timeout on connect CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 120, // timeout on response CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10, // stop after 10 redirects ); $url = "http://graph.facebook.com/".$id."/picture"; $ch = curl_init( $url ); curl_setopt_array( $ch, $options ); $content = curl_exec( $ch ); $err = curl_errno( $ch ); $errmsg = curl_error( $ch ); $header = curl_getinfo( $ch ); curl_close( $ch ); //$header[errno] = $err; //$header[errmsg] = $errmsg; //$header[content] = $content; print($header[0]); return $header; } ?>

For more information about curl liberary just do it.
1. Go to Start >> Run >>cmd
2. Write "curl --help" or "curl --manual"

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