Requirements
If you're dense like I am, spare yourself the trouble on an Ubuntu system (probably Debian too) and...
$ sudo apt-get install php5-curl
Then feel dumb, but not as dumb as me.
Installation
To use PHP's cURL support you must also compile PHP --with-curl[=DIR] where DIR is the location of the directory containing the lib and include directories. In the include directory there should be a folder named curl which should contain the easy.h and curl.h files. There should be a file named libcurl.a located in the lib directory. Beginning with PHP 4.3.0 you can configure PHP to use cURL for URL streams --with-curlwrappers.
Note: Note to Win32 Users
In order to enable this module on a Windows environment, libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll must be present in your PATH. You don't need libcurl.dll from the cURL site.
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User Contributed NotesInstallation
regs at voidship dot net
24-Sep-2008 01:45
24-Sep-2008 01:45
Anonymous
21-Aug-2008 09:23
21-Aug-2008 09:23
@comments at adstation-systems dot com
You never need to compile at windows (unless you want to play with it). So it's not confusing at all.
cristianods at yahoo dot com
14-Aug-2008 10:53
14-Aug-2008 10:53
Tip for Installing cURL with AppServ development server on Windows
If you are running AppServ as a WAMP development environment on a Windows machine, you may experience difficulty installing cURL. Here are some helpful steps:
First go to the PHP directory and copy the following libraries to the windows/system32 dir.
ssleay32.dll
libeay32.dll
Open the php ini file and remove the ; from extension=php_curl.dll
Reboot your machine to load […]
comments at adstation-systems dot com
10-Aug-2008 12:23
10-Aug-2008 12:23
You may be confused, as I was, by the instructions for installing cURL in php. The instruction "To use PHP's cURL support you must also compile PHP --with-curl[=DIR]..." was murky to me, since I didn't compile php when I installed it. I just copied all of the necessary files to the correct folders as described very clearly in the php manual.
I am using Windows XP and Apache with php 5.1.6. In this situation, and it may apply to php versions of 5.0 and later, all one needs to do is remove the ";" from the front of the directive extension=php_curl.dll. You should also check to make certain that libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll are in your php directory with the other dll's. This directory should already be in you path, so the instruction to put them in you path is not critical.
You can then run phpinfo() and you should see a heading for curl in the listing.
Succinctly, my installation of cURL consisted of removing the semi-colon in front of the ;extension=php_curl.dll line in php.ini, saving php.ini and restarting Apache. You may wish to try this if you are using php 5.0 and later and are having difficulty understanding the instructions on the cURL installation page at php.net
You might also find the information at http://curl.phptrack.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=52 useful.
rohanshenoy at w3hobbyist dot com
22-Jul-2008 01:21
22-Jul-2008 01:21
If you are using WAMPserver, you can enable the cURL extensions by
Left-click on WAMPserver tray icon>PHP>PHP extensions> Check php_curl.
Its already loaded on your disk, you have to activate it.
Christopher McCulloh
19-Jul-2008 12:40
19-Jul-2008 12:40
If you are using XAMPP (http://www.apachefriends.org/en/index.html) all you have to do is uncomment this line (line 582):
extension=php_curl.dll
in the xampp\apache\bin\php.ini file.
asi at neo dot ee
14-Dec-2002 12:28
14-Dec-2002 12:28
If anybody has problems with getting new curl working with older version of php then ...
I got stuck with installing curl-7.10.2+php 4.0.6 or better said configuring PHP with mentioned version of curl.
After some hopeless attempts to configure curl support into PHP I saw an error message:
"checking for cURL greater than or equal to 7.8... ./configure: line 11725: test: 070a02: integer expression expected"
after which configure said: "configure: error: cURL version 7.8 or later is required to compile php with cURL support"
On the mentioned line "test" is used to compare verion from curl-sonfig with preset value 70800 but ... test expects both values to be integer. From verson 7.8 curl outputs its version in hex...
I did'nt had the time to think about fixing this - I just deleted lines responsible and got curl working :)