CodeIgniter-cURL is a CodeIgniter library which makes it easy to do simple cURL requests and makes more complicated cURL requests easier too.
- PHP 5.1+
- CodeIgniter 1.7.x - 2.0-dev
- PHP 5 (configured with cURL enabled)
- libcurl
- POST/GET/PUT/DELETE requests over HTTP
- HTTP Authentication
- Follows redirects
- Returns error string
- Provides debug information
- Proxy support
- Cookies
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$this->load->library('curl');
These do it all in one line of code to make life easy. They return the body of the page, or FALSE on fail.
// Simple call to remote URL
echo $this->curl->simple_get('http://example.com/');
// Simple call to CI URI
$this->curl->simple_post('controller/method', array('foo'=>'bar'));
// Set advanced options in simple calls
// Can use any of these flags http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php
$this->curl->simple_get('http://example.com', array(CURLOPT_PORT => 8080));
$this->curl->simple_post('http://example.com', array('foo'=>'bar'), array(CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE => 10));
These methods allow you to build a more complex request.
// Start session (also wipes existing/previous sessions)
$this->curl->create('http://example.com/');
// Option & Options
$this->curl->option(CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE, 10);
$this->curl->options(array(CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE => 10));
// More human looking options
$this->curl->option('buffersize', 10);
// Login to HTTP user authentication
$this->curl->http_login('username', 'password');
// Post - If you do not use post, it will just run a GET request
$post = array('foo'=>'bar');
$this->curl->post($post);
// Cookies - If you do not use post, it will just run a GET request
$vars = array('foo'=>'bar');
$this->curl->set_cookies($vars);
// Proxy - Request the page through a proxy server
// Port is optional, defaults to 80
$this->curl->proxy('http://example.com', 1080);
$this->curl->proxy('http://example.com');
// Proxy login
$this->curl->proxy_login('username', 'password');
// Execute - returns responce
echo $this->curl->execute();
// Debug data ------------------------------------------------
// Errors
$this->curl->error_code; // int
$this->curl->error_string;
// Information
$this->curl->info; // array