cURL in PHP, What is the cURL, How can I use cURL in PHP

Deepak Tewatia
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Hi there! I'm here to teach you how can you use cURL in PHP, but first we must know some words

1- What is the cURL

The PHP Client URL (cURL) is a useful extension for Back-End developers that allows developers that can connect they're website to other websites (Like REST APIs)

2- Prerequisites

Just an application like WAMPP, XAMPP, AMPPS etc and a PC (A Computer or Laptop)

3- How can I use cURL in PHP

At first, we must creating a session for our cURL and store it in a constant or variable

$curl = curl_init();

then, we can do everything with cURL!

when our works with cURL done, we must close session that we store that in a variable/constant

curl_close($curl);

It's easy! Yeah?
But here, we have a very very important function of cURL

curl_setopt(sessionName, option, value);

This is you and this is curl_setopt! Yeahhh! It's obvious from it's name that what it does for us!

curl_setopt will set options of cURL,

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First Parameter: Session name that we store it in variable/const

Second: Option name

curl_setopt(sessionName, option, value);

Third: value of option

like this code:

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://c-sharpcorner.com);

This will set our target URL!

I think that it's enough for now! I will see you later, with better courses, articles and etc

I hope you enjoy! Good Bye!