CURL Class

[Dan]

http://www.ruuma.com/s/class.curl.phps :lala:

Usage

Include this script from a different file.
  include('class.curl.php');

Set the referrer:
  $curl->set_referrer('http://google.com');

Set the user agent:
  (for firefox 2.0 on windows xp)
  $curl->set_user_agent('Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0');

Set the error message:
  $curl->set_error_message('An error occured.');

Get request:
  $data = $curl->get('http://site.com/file.php?var=value&var2=value');

Post request:
  $curl->post('http://site.com/file.php', 'var=value&var2=value');

Using an array for post variables:
  $postvalues = array("var"  => "value",
                      "var2" => "value");
  $curl->post_array('http://site.com/file.php', $postvalues);

Rep is appreciated. _\|/_

 

[Dan]

The point is to make it very easy to use curl. You can use $curl->get('url'); instead of the 10 or so lines it would take to do it without the functions. It's a lot easier to set the referrer and the other options with $curl->set_referrer('url'); rather than curl_setopt($this->ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $referrer_url);

 

[IAmAllanShore]

Gotta be honest - I don't know what it does...

Any help for an ignorant fart?

-Allan :gl:

 

[Dan]

It can download or send information to/from other pages.

To login to a form that had:
action="http://site.com/login.php" method="post"
and the fields username and password, you would do:
$curl->post('http://site.com/login.php', 'username=yourusername&password=yourpassword');

Also, some hosts don't allow you to use file_get_contents or fopen, so this is a way to get around that.

 

[Jim_]

How is this better than just using the curl functions themselves?

Next time, use raw sockets. :P

 

[IAmAllanShore]

I love you guys

It's like watching an old KungFu movie where I don't know the language, but they're still speaking English :tu:

Dan, still don't get what it does, but that's a failing on my part, not yours. Best to you, and I can tell that you're light-years ahead of me on the code

-Allan :gl:

 

[Jim_]

Basicly, it allows you to make GET and POST requests to other web pages and get the result.

Example usage: you could make a script that POST's a username and password to a login page somewhere, and return the resulting page.

 

[kwan]

Nice, but I use phpclasses.org for this stuff

 

[beaver6813]

Thanks Dan, cool script Could be very useful for login scripts and proxy sites etc ^^ Submit it to phpclasses.org to get some more viewers

 

[Kadenz]

Thanks Dan the Man!
I can do this with CURL any day, but this can sure help out some people new to PHP.

 

[-NB-]

Nice contribution. I am experienced with PHP, and I can tell you that this will definitely help when I use cURL. It gets to be a pain redefining it all, so this will really condense the code.

Definite +rep!!

Nick