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1. jezzen Says:
   October 11th, 2006 at 3:57 pm

   yeah fully recomend this curl article you are linking to. i’ve just gone beyond the basics of php programming and been learning curl to help facilitate multi server transfers. unfortunately decent curl tutorials (written in basic english anyway!) are few and far between. this article gets straight to the point. good find phpkitchen
   jezzen

2. svitkona Says:
   February 10th, 2007 at 11:41 am

   thanks it helps..:D

3. Steve Says:
   April 10th, 2007 at 3:45 pm

   thanks!

4. Bob Says:
   June 29th, 2007 at 2:49 am

   I am wondering how to do both a post and get request with curl
   in the same session.

   I need to post the user id and password to https:// url#1
   and then get the XML data from https://url#2

   I am able to perform the post successfully but get and invalid session
   response on the get request.

   // INIT CURL
   $ch = curl_init();

   // SET URL FOR THE POST FORM LOGIN
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, ‘https:// url ‘);
   curl_setopt($ch, CUPROPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
   curl_setopt($ch, CUPROPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, FALSE);

   // ENABLE HTTP POST
   curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

   // SET POST PARAMETERS : FORM VALUES FOR EACH FIELD
   curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, ‘userid=fieldvalue1&password=fieldvalue2′);
   curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

   // EXECUTE 1st REQUEST (LOGIN)
   $postresponse = curl_exec ($ch);
   echo $postresponse

   // SET FILE TO DOWNLOAD
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, ‘https:// url#2 for xml data’);

   // EXECUTE 2nd REQUEST (xml response)
   $getresponse = curl_exec ($ch);
   echo $getresponse;

   // CLOSE THE SESSION
   curl_close($ch);

   Bob
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5. kigoobe Says:
   October 16th, 2007 at 11:23 pm

   Good article, but I am getting a wrong parameter error for curl_exec(). Writing curl_exec($ch) returns an empty page, and if curl_exec() is left empty without any parameter, it gives a wrong parameter error.

6. Charles Says:
   November 8th, 2007 at 8:22 pm

   for some reason i’m getting the same page back and my values for the form inputs are just placed into the form. any reason why i’d receive the same page back?

7. Raj Says:
   August 3rd, 2009 at 2:53 am

   How to start with Curl learning any step by step guide?

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