tony spencer

Thanks for writting this. These steps worked like a charm on windows xp with php and apache installed.

Although it works, I don’t understand how apache or php knows of the executable in d:\apps\curl; this directory is not reference anywere in apace or php. Do they use them at all?

Thanks …. it worked great. Like the previous comment-er I also don’t know how apache or php knows of the whereabouts of the curl executable. Nevertheless it works and your instructions were very helpful.

I’m not getting anywhere with this. I’ve got PHP and Apache working well (along with MySQL) on WinXP. I’m getting:

“Fatal error: Call to undefined function: curl_init() in C:\webpages\mark\test.php on line 20″

on the curl_init line of your sample code. I’ve followed your instructions, step by step as below.

1) Didn’t do anything – php already installed this way
2) made changes as specified
3) done
4) done
5) done
6) NA (don’t care about ssl support)
7) file exists done
9) done previously when installed php

Apache restarted before page loaded where error obtained. PHP runs fine – phpMyAdmin and I are getting along famously. Other php pages loading. Just cURL doesn’t want to work.

Any suggestions for troubleshooting? I’m a bit of a newbie at this whole thing. Thanks for your help.

omg, you clever, clever person!! i’ve been winding myself up about this at work for days

your solution totally worked!! *hugs*

Hello,
I have got PHP With IIS in win-XP.I am getting one error in the below program as follows.
“Fatal error: Call to undefined function: curl_init()”
This is the program……….

$curlPost = ‘pop=’ . urlencode($pop) . ‘&alias=’ . urlencode($uid) . ‘&pass=’ . urlencode($txtPass) . ‘&SUBMIT=Send’;
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, ‘put here url whihc needs to be executed’);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $curlPost);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

So i don’t know how to install curl and configure this.please help me as soon as possible.
please give me the easy steps to go one by one.
Thanks very much.

Thanks for the instructions.

Yet I have a problem with posting to a test page I have on my localhost. When I use curl to post:

$post = Array();
$post[1] = urlencode(‘test1′);
$post[2] = urlencode(‘test2′);
$post[3] = urlencode(‘test3′);

$curl = curl_init(“http://localhost/curltest/post.php”);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);

—- post.php

echo “CONTENTS:”;
print_r($_POST);

With my understanding of curl, this should print the POST arrays contents which it received via curl.

But I get nothing.

Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance

Hi,
I’ve a problem with curl…
How can I test if the port 443 are open or closed? (is it available or not?)

I run the following script to access my bank url, but get the errormessage :”couldn’t connect to host “..

Thanks
Enes
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, “https://xxxxx.com”);
curl_exec($ch);

if (curl_errno($ch)) {
print curl_error($ch);
} else {
curl_close($ch);
}

I can run my apache after adding this line in my httpd.conf :LoadModule php4_module c:\php\sapi\php4apache2.dll

c:\php is my php home dir.

Pls give comment.

Hi, thanks for these instructions. Only problem i am facing is, images don’t show up. It works fine but only images of the target site don’t show up. i am using windows 2003 server. do the directy session.save needs to have some special permissions? thanks

What are the procedures for setting this cURL with ssl support using php 5 and iis6?

Whats the setup procedure for iis6 and cURL with php5?

Hello,

I am php web programmer looking for php curl support. I tried to find curl library for windows platform, but there several links on google that gives php_curl2.dll information. But the problem is that there is no link to download that files.
Please help me. send your suggetion on mukeshvariya34@yahoo.com

Thanks Tony! This is a great tip. It even works with Zend Studio 4 which is the php IDE and debugger. Add the folowing lines to C:\Program Files\Zend\StudioServer\etc\php.ini

extension_dir=”C:\Program Files\Zend\StudioServer\lib\php_ext”

sessions.save_path=”C:\Program Files\Zend\StudioServer\lib\temp”

extension=php_curl.dll

then create the directory C:\Program Files\Zend\StudioServer\lib\temp. Then you have OpenSSL and Curl support running so you can debug your encrypted soap calls. Neat!

I thank you too!
I couldn’t figure out how to get curl working on my xp laptop.
Thanks!!!

Hi,

I am the client side of a SOAP service. I got the certificate from the server and I need to access the service using this certificate/key. I am working on Windows XP. The following code is written in PHP but doesn’t work. The message is: “Unable to retrieve WSDL”.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

======================

require_once (“SOAP/Client.php”);

# $options['curl']['CURLOPT_SSLKEY']=”c:\certificate.pem”;

## $options['curl']['CURLOPT_SSLCERT']=”c:\exportedcertificate.pfx”;

$options['curl']['CURLOPT_SSLCERT']=”c:\certnew.cer”;
$options['curl']['CURLOPT_SSLKEY']=”c:\server.keystore”;
$options['curl']['CURLOPT_SSLKEY']=”c:\certificate.pem”; ?????????should be this

$options['curl']['CURLOPT_SSLCERTPASSWD']=”pw”;
$options['curl']['CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER']=0;
$options['curl']['CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST']=0;
$options['curl']['CURLOPT_VERBOSE']=1;
$options['curl']['CURLOPT_CAINFO']=??????? what should this be?

$soapclient = new SOAP_Client(‘https://…./postal.asmx?WSDL’, true, false, $options);

print_r ($soapclient);

======================================

When print out the info of SOAP_Client object, I got “Unable to retrieve WSDL.

Thanks in advance

Hi, This is still Cynthia who posted the last messge. I also tried the following solution, the error message is

Error:
58 – unable to set certificate file (wrong password?)

But I am sure the password IS correct.. I gave the multiple settings to CAINFO and SSLCERT just for testing. I had a 5*4 combination for testing. nOne of them worked.

any help is appreciated!

================

#$url = “http://www.thinkgeek.com”;
$url=”https://…./postal.asmx?WSDL”;
$ch = curl_init($url);

#curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CAINFO, ‘c:\curl-7.15.0\lib\ca-bundle.crt’);

#curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CAINFO, ‘c:\certificate.pem’);

#curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CAINFO,’c:\certnew.cer’);

#curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CAINFO,’c:\exportedcertificate.pfx’);

#curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CAINFO,’c:\server.keystore’);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSLCERT,’c:\certnew.cer’);
#curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSLCERT,’c:\certificate.pem’);
#curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSLCERT,’c:\exportedcertificate.pfx’);

#curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSLCERT,’c:\server.keystore’);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSLCERTPASSWD,’xzhengpw’);

##curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);

$returned = curl_exec($ch);
echo $returned;

if ($returned == NULL) {
echo “Error:”;
echo curl_errno($ch) . ” – ” . curl_error($ch) . “”;
}

curl_close ($ch);

Thanks a lot

I have a working Apache2 PHP5 server running on Windows XP. After following Tony’s instructions I am experiencing the same trouble as several users above.

I have posted a php web page with Tony’s testing code. The browser answers with the following error code:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_setopt() in C:\Data\GNK-site\Curl\CurlTest.php on line 9.

Having no prior experience with CURL, I’m not sure if the problem lies in configuration or in the posted test page.

According to PHP.NET, Curl must be compiled into PHP5, yet Tony has not included any compile procedures in the instructions.

I would appreciate any suggestions/explanations you might offer. I can be reached directly at geno11@softhome.net.

Gene K.

Supplement to my previous post: I installed Apache2, PHP, MySQL, and CURL in the WinXP “Program Files” directory which contains a space. Even though everything else is working properly, could the space in the path be causing my problem?

Thanks man.

I was frustrated with getting nothing for SSL sites when it worked ok with HTTP sites and also with HTTPS from the command line.

You are my hero…

Hie
I aslo installed php5 and Apache on winXP and these are working fine.I followed tony spencer’s steps to installing cURL and used the test code given,I get no response.i also tried the following suggestions give but still I get no response.

Where could the problem be?Please help.

I am new to php and just wanted to pass along something I learned.

Verify the path to php.ini. You can do this by running phpinfo().

I was changing the wrong php.ini file and was going crazy.

The key is to make sure you are changing the right php.ini file.

This tutorial help

Thanks

Hello sir,

I used curl according to you. i have installed all things according to u. but even after i faced following error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: curl_init() in d:\apache group\apache\htdocs\clients\try\test.php on line 3

so please tell me what should I do.
Thanking you

i tried all this, but still i get curl_init() not defined

I am new to php and just wanted to pass along something I learned.

Verify the path to php.ini. You can do this by running phpinfo().

I was changing the wrong php.ini file and was going crazy.

Same here. thanks for the tip, tutorial works great.

Hi,

I’m working with curl in my client right now. I’ve tried my script in another server and it’s working and when I transfered it to another server, problem occurs:

Error 58: unable to set certificate file (wrong password?)

I don’t understand why this error occured. I haven’t changed any certificate file. I just copied everything and that’s is.

Here is the info of the new server:
PHP 5.0.4

While in my server its PHP 4.3.11.

Do you think the php version matters?

If you have time kindly give me some answers..

Thanks and God bless…

dude, you totally f***ing rock.
i can’t express how completely fed up i’d become with uploading, testing, tweaking and re-uploading cURL intensive apps to my web host when i have a perfectly fine dev environment on my laptop…
well now, thanks to you that ‘clean room’ now features fully functioning cURL. THANKS MUCH.

btw, i can verify that adding:

curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER,0);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CAINFO,’drive:/path/curl-ca-bundle.crt’);

right after the call to curl_init works like a charm for ssl url’s.

Hi,
I am a freshers and I am working on php for last 2 months.I am doing a project where multi tasking concept is needed,but as in php there is no direct multithreading concept,so I want to do my job with curl or multiprocess concept.I am using unix platform.Please help me in this context with some codes and examples having multitasking or parallel processing.
Thanks and regards,
Subhojit

Please help me
I’m Using Php 5 And For connecting To Https
Please Help Me for Configuration Php.Ini
My error Is
wsdl error: HTTP ERROR: cURL ERROR: 7: Connect failed; No error
url: https://www.pec24.com:443/pecpaymentgateway/eshopservice.asmx?wsdl‘
http_code: 0
header_size: 0
request_size: 0
filetime: -1
ssl_verify_result: 0
redirect_count: 0
total_time: 0
namelookup_time: 0.031
connect_time: 0
pretransfer_time: 0
size_upload: 0
size_download: 0
speed_download: 0
speed_upload: 0
download_content_length: 0
upload_content_length: 0
starttransfer_time: 0
redirect_time: 0

hello all

i am sorry for posting my doubt here, but found no way to post it.
i am new to curl and incorporating it with java to get the desire webpage. i had got curl lib but not able to work it with java, so pleease anybod who had worked over it then guide me.
Thanks in advance.

That’s a great writing. I really find it very helpful while installing curl. It works quite nice.
Thanks for providing such a great document.

I don’t get it.. You downloaded curl and openssl into d:\apps\curl, but you don’t reference that path anywhere else in the configuration of httpd.conf or php.ini. When you enable curl in php.ini, you use the default curl library that comes with the php distribution, “extension=php_curl.dll”. So, how does php/apache know about the dlls you downloaded to d:\apps\curl? Doesn’t the above steps you outline just use the default php_curl.dll and not the other ones?? I tried the above steps, and I can’t use curl to query any https addresses…

I tried to do as told, but couldn’t fix the error. For those still with problems (as i was until a few minutes), please refer to
http://www.zend.com/pecl/tutorials/curl.php

hi all

iam a JAVA programmer and iam new to curl. Can anyone can help me out to work in curl and incorporating its command in java api so as to run it from the console.