Archive: curl

If you are trying to get a curl script which needs follow on location functionality to run on a server which has either open_basedir or safe mode enabled you will get an error message similar to the following: CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set After a bit of digging, [...]

Some hosts disabled the ini setting allow_url_fopen. This also means that the ability to easily grab images by calling imagecreatefromjpeg($img) where $img is a url for an external image does not work. This is a shame as this technique is pretty easy.. PLAIN TEXT PHP: $remote_img = 'http://www.somwhere.com/images/image.jpg'; $img = imagecreatefromjpeg($remote_img); $path = 'images/'; imagejpeg($img, [...]

If you have read through this blog, you will realise that I am a big fan of the cURL library for PHP. Also, when using windows to code - I like to use the XAMPP package to give me easy access to an Apache, PHP and MySQL stack. So here is my quick guide to [...]

One of the most useful and powerful things you can do with PHP is to create a programme which will simulate a web browser and can grab data, post data to forms and generally interact with other web sites - automatically. For PHP to be able to work like this it must have the CURL [...]