curl_error
Great class Roman - just one fix:
Replace the following line:
<?php
if (isset($params['host']) && $params['host']) $header[]="Host: ".$host;
?>
with this:
<?php
if (isset($params['host']) && $params['host']) $header[]="Host: " . $params['host'];
?>
CURL automatically creates the host parameter (since it is required for HTTP/1.1 requests), so you don't need to set it. But if you created a custom host parameter, the above bug would cause a '400 Bad Request' response due to invalid host specified.
Also when copying and pasting the class code, make sure that no line breaks occur (for example in the $header and $user_agent definitions etc.). It will still be valid PHP, but the HTTP request will not be valid, and you may get a '400 Bad Request' response from the server.
It took me a little playing around with an HTTP Sniffer before I finally got an HTTP POST request fully working!
Thanks,
Alan
curl_exec
(PHP 4 >= 4.0.2, PHP 5)
curl_exec — Ejecuta una sesión CURL
Descripción
bool curl_exec
( int $ch
)
Esta función debe ser llamada después de inicializar una sesión CURL y fijar todas las opciones para la misma. Su propósito es simplemente el de ejecutar la sesión CURL indicada por el parámetro ch .
Example #1 Inicializar una nueva sesión CURL y obtener una página web
<?php
// Se crea un manejador CURL
$ch = curl_init();
// Se establece la URL y algunas opciones
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.example.com/");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
// Se obtiene la URL indicada
curl_exec($ch);
// Se cierra el recurso CURL y se liberan los recursos del sistema
curl_close($ch);
?>
Note: Si se quiere que el resultado devuelto no se imprima directamente en la ventana del navegador, se puede usar la opción CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER mediante la función curl_setopt().
add a note
User Contributed Notescurl_exec
alan at forsyth dot cz
07-Jun-2008 12:59
07-Jun-2008 12:59
roman dot ivasyuk at gmail dot com
16-Jan-2008 01:11
16-Jan-2008 01:11
<?php
class CurlRequest
{
private $ch;
/**
* Init curl session
*
* $params = array('url' => '',
* 'host' => '',
* 'header' => '',
* 'method' => '',
* 'referer' => '',
* 'cookie' => '',
* 'post_fields' => '',
* ['login' => '',]
* ['password' => '',]
* 'timeout' => 0
* );
*/
public function init($params)
{
$this->ch = curl_init();
$user_agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U;
Windows NT 5.1; ru; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061206 Firefox/1.5.0.9';
$header = array(
"Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,
text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5",
"Accept-Language: ru-ru,ru;q=0.7,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3",
"Accept-Charset: windows-1251,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7",
"Keep-Alive: 300");
if (isset($params['host']) && $params['host']) $header[]="Host: ".$host;
if (isset($params['header']) && $params['header']) $header[]=$params['header'];
@curl_setopt ( $this -> ch , CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER , 1 );
@curl_setopt ( $this -> ch , CURLOPT_VERBOSE , 1 );
@curl_setopt ( $this -> ch , CURLOPT_HEADER , 1 );
if ($params['method'] == "HEAD") @curl_setopt($this -> ch,CURLOPT_NOBODY,1);
@curl_setopt ( $this -> ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
@curl_setopt ( $this -> ch , CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header );
if ($params['referer']) @curl_setopt ($this -> ch , CURLOPT_REFERER, $params['referer'] );
@curl_setopt ( $this -> ch , CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $user_agent);
if ($params['cookie']) @curl_setopt ($this -> ch , CURLOPT_COOKIE, $params['cookie']);
if ( $params['method'] == "POST" )
{
curl_setopt( $this -> ch, CURLOPT_POST, true );
curl_setopt( $this -> ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $params['post_fields'] );
}
@curl_setopt( $this -> ch, CURLOPT_URL, $params['url']);
@curl_setopt ( $this -> ch , CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0 );
@curl_setopt ( $this -> ch , CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0 );
if (isset($params['login']) & isset($params['password']))
@curl_setopt($this -> ch , CURLOPT_USERPWD,$params['login'].':'.$params['password']);
@curl_setopt ( $this -> ch , CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $params['timeout']);
}
/**
* Make curl request
*
* @return array 'header','body','curl_error','http_code','last_url'
*/
public function exec()
{
$response = curl_exec($this->ch);
$error = curl_error($this->ch);
$result = array( 'header' => '',
'body' => '',
'curl_error' => '',
'http_code' => '',
'last_url' => '');
if ( $error != "" )
{
$result['curl_error'] = $error;
return $result;
}
$header_size = curl_getinfo($this->ch,CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE);
$result['header'] = substr($response, 0, $header_size);
$result['body'] = substr( $response, $header_size );
$result['http_code'] = curl_getinfo($this -> ch,CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
$result['last_url'] = curl_getinfo($this -> ch,CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL);
return $result;
}
}
?>
Example of use:
<?php
..........
try
{
$params = array('url' => 'http://www.google.com',
'host' => '',
'header' => '',
'method' => 'GET', // 'POST','HEAD'
'referer' => '',
'cookie' => '',
'post_fields' => '', // 'var1=value&var2=value
'timeout' => 20
);
$this->curl->init($params);
$result = $this->curl->exec();
if ($result['curl_error']) throw new Exception($result['curl_error']);
if ($result['http_code']!='200') throw new Exception("HTTP Code = ".$result['http_code']);
if (!$result['body']) throw new Exception("Body of file is empty");
...............
}
catch (Exception $e)
{
echo $e->getMessage();
}
?>
aeon tech at g mail dot com
19-Dec-2007 05:14
19-Dec-2007 05:14
// easy way to parse raw http headers
function parse_http_headers($rawheaders)
{
$lines = explode("\n",$rawheaders);
if(substr($lines[0],0,5) == 'HTTP/')
{
$response = array_shift($lines);
}
foreach($lines as $line)
{
preg_match("/^(.+?):\s+(.+)$/",trim($line),$matches);
$headers[$matches[1]] = $matches[2];
unset($matches);
}
return $headers;
}
me at lawrencemok dot com
04-Dec-2007 08:52
04-Dec-2007 08:52
Note that when you use CURL to POST things....e.g:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "string=This is a string");
The data part (e.g. "This is a string") inside the 3rd parameter should be applied with urlencode()
Otherwise, if you intend to send a string like "%2F", you will end up with a "/" on the receiving end, which can cause troubles. (e.g. serialize() data cannot be unserialize() becase of the change in string length).
cameron at bulock dot com
22-Oct-2007 07:14
22-Oct-2007 07:14
A slightly more efficient way to return the HTTP code would be to use the curl_getinfo function
function getHttpResponseCode($url)
{
$ch = @curl_init($url);
@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, TRUE);
@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, TRUE);
@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, FALSE);
@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$status = array();
$status = @curl_getinfo($ch);
return $status['http_code'];
}
Florian Holzhauer
12-Sep-2007 11:58
12-Sep-2007 11:58
If you use apache2+mod_chroot with php5, add
LoadFile /lib/libnss_dns.so.2
to your mod_chroot config - this should resolver problems.
shanto at ultimawebsolutions dot com
17-Aug-2007 06:01
17-Aug-2007 06:01
A function to retrieve the status code of an HTTP request using CURL:
function getHttpResponseCode($url)
{
$ch = @curl_init($url);
@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, TRUE);
@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, TRUE);
@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, FALSE);
@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$status = array();
$response = @curl_exec($ch);
preg_match('/HTTP\/.* ([0-9]+) .*/', $response, $status);
return $status[1];
}
test at test dot com
13-Aug-2007 03:43
13-Aug-2007 03:43
If you see a "0" at the end of the output, you might want to switch to HTTP/1.0:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, 1.0);
lukasl at ackleymedia dot com
06-Oct-2006 04:52
06-Oct-2006 04:52
Thank you for sharing this. I was wondering why my result was 1.
To get around this in a safe way, this is how I check if the result is valid.
$ch = curl_init(); /// initialize a cURL session
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$xmlResponse = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
if (!is_string($xmlResponse) || !strlen($xmlResponse)) {
return $this->_set_error( "Failure Contacting Server" );
} else {
return $xmlResponse;
}
04-Oct-2006 10:41
Be careful when using curl_exec() and the CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER option. According to the manual and assorted documentation:
Set CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER to TRUE to return the transfer as a string of the return value of curl_exec() instead of outputting it out directly.
When retrieving a document with no content (ie. 0 byte file), curl_exec() will return bool(true), not an empty string. I've not seen any mention of this in the manual.
Example code to reproduce this:
<?php
// fictional URL to an existing file with no data in it (ie. 0 byte file)
$url = 'http://www.example.com/empty_file.txt';
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
// execute and return string (this should be an empty string '')
$str = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
// the value of $str is actually bool(true), not empty string ''
var_dump($str);
?>
Jørgen Tjernø
08-Mar-2005 03:12
08-Mar-2005 03:12
If you've got problems with curl_exec not working, you should rather check curl_errno and curl_error than using commandline curl, like so:
(since this is easier, and also allows you to check for errors runtime, which is a vital part of any well-design piece of code. ;)
<?php
$creq = curl_init();
curl_setopt($creq, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.foo.internal");
curl_exec($creq);
/* To quote curl_errno documentation:
Returns the error number for the last cURL operation on the resource ch, or 0 (zero) if no error occurred. */
if (curl_errno($creq)) {
print curl_error($creq);
} else {
curl_close($creq);
}
?>
landon at phazeforward dot com
01-Dec-2004 12:43
01-Dec-2004 12:43
If your curl installation is not compiled with SSL support you will beat your head against a wall when trying to figure out why curl_exec() is failing to fail or do anything else ...
If you run into a situation where your call to curl_exec is not returning anything you should try the same call with the command line curl
fifa_2k [-at-] sina [-dot-] com
29-Oct-2004 08:29
29-Oct-2004 08:29
With php 4.3.9 or higher,you can upload file to ftp server on win32 system
<?php
function curl_upload($src) {
$fn = basename($src);
$dest = "ftp://user:passwd@server.com/incoming/$fn";
$ch = curl_init();
$fp = fopen($src,"r");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_UPLOAD, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 300);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLE_OPERATION_TIMEOUTED, 300);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $dest);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, filesize($src));
curl_exec($ch);
fclose ($fp);
$errorMsg = '';
$errorMsg = curl_error($ch);
$errorNumber = curl_errno($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $errorNumber;
}
?>
lower version php (I tried on php 4.3.3) on win32 can't do this and may cause php crash even you use CURLOPT_READFUNCTION.
sybren at thirdtower dot com
01-Jul-2003 04:00
01-Jul-2003 04:00
If you see a "0" at the end of the output, you might want to switch to HTTP/1.0:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, 1.0);
nagyp at hunaxon dot hu
27-Apr-2003 02:22
27-Apr-2003 02:22
fyi:
It returns false if there's an error while executing the curl session, no matter how CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER is set.
colins at infofind dot com
25-Apr-2002 01:42
25-Apr-2002 01:42
Checking the source, curl_exec seems to return FALSE on failure, TRUE on success (unless CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER is set 1, and then it returns the returned data).
ppruett at webengr dot com
01-Mar-2002 04:06
01-Mar-2002 04:06
fyi - if you are having problems getting a
webpage to display in your webpage with
curl_setopt(CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
due to version bugginess perhaps,
you may can use output control functions
like this to show a web page
inside your webpage:
<html><head><title>whatever</title></head>
<body>
<script language="php">
$ch = curl_init("http://www.cocoavillage.com/");
// use output buffering instead of returntransfer -itmaybebuggy
ob_start();
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$retrievedhtml = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
// if you intend to print this page with meta tags, better clear out any expiration tag
// $result = preg_replace('/(?s)<meta http-equiv="Expires"[^>]*>/i', '', $retrievedhtml);
// for now I just want what is between the body tags so need
// somehow cut the header footer
$bodyandend = stristr($retrievedhtml,"<body");
// not needed- $positionstartbodystring = strlen($retrievedhtml)-strlen($bodyandend);
$positionendstartbodytag = strpos($bodyandend,">") + 1;
// got to change all to lowercase temporarily
// because end body may be upperlowercasemix
// to bad strirstr does not exist
$temptofindposition=strtolower($bodyandend);
$positionendendbodytag=strpos($temptofindposition,"</body");
//now to get the endbetween body tags
$grabbedbody=substr($bodyandend,
$positionendstartbodytag,
$positionendendbodytag);
//be sure to fix syntax broke by display on phpwebsite... like above line
print("$grabbedbody");
</script>
</body></html>
tada
sharky at im dot net dot ua
22-Nov-2001 02:08
22-Nov-2001 02:08
If You want to hide result which return curl_exec
Use bufeered output.
For example:
-----------------------
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"http://url.com/index.php");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "a=3&b=5");
//--- Start buffering
ob_start();
curl_exec ($ch);
//--- End buffering and clean output
ob_end_clean();
curl_close ($ch);
------------------
maybe it help somebody :))
----------
Best Regards
Sharky
csaba at alum dot mit dot edu
22-May-2001 10:06
22-May-2001 10:06
If you retrieve a web page and print it (so you can see it in your browser), and the page has an expiration, this expiration now applies to MyProgram.php and next time your program/page is called, even if it's grabbing a different web page, it will show what it just displayed. In Netscape you can get rid of this by going into Edit, Options, Advanced, Cache, and clear out the Disk Cache. But this is really annoying after short order. The following prevents the above scenario:
<?php
function GetCurlPage ($pageSpec) {
$ch = curl_init($pageSpec);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$tmp = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
// if you intend to print this page, better clear out expiration tag
$tmp = preg_replace('/(?s)<meta http-equiv="Expires"[^>]*>/i', '', $tmp);
return $tmp;
}
?>