libcurl - PHP Binding examples

PHP/CURL Examples Collection

We try to collect examples on how to program the PHP/CURL interface here. If you have any source snippests you want to share with the rest of the world, please let us know!

Example

Description

Author

blogpost

Post a blog entry to blogger.com using their "Atom" XML-based API.

Michael Phipps

callbacks

Set callback functions to receive the HTTP response as it comes through.

Keyvan Minoukadeh

cookiejar

Mitchell

customrequest

CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST usage shown

ebay_login

Mimics a browser and logs in to ebay

Imran Khalid

ftpupload

FTP upload to a remote site

Daniel Stenberg

getbinarypageinvar

Get the contents of a web page as a binary into a php variable.

getpageinvar

Get the contents of a remote web page into a PHP variable

google-analytics-login

This code posts all the correct post fields to Googles universal Account Services login and brings the user directly to the AdSense Overview page. Cookies are used in this example as well as setting the USER AGENT and REFERRER HTTP headers.

AskApache.com

httpfileupload

Shows how to submit and upload a file to a HTML upload form.

Daniel Stenberg

linkchecker

Check for a given link in a remote page

Michael Phipps

multi

Shows how to fetch several documents at once by using the multi interface

Roman Rozanov

multipartpost

Using a multipart/form-post file upload form on a web page.

Pete James

put

Perform a HTTP PUT to a remote site

Julian Bond

resizejpg

Download a remote image, resize it and show it to the user

Michael Phipps

rss-adsense

Follow your Adsense earnings with an RSS reader

Ozh

simpleget

Get a URL

simplepost

Basic HTTP POST operation

The google-analytics-login.php Example

AskApache.com

<?php
/* "AdSense totals sent via SMS to cellphone" 
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum89/5349.htm

"Follow your Adsense earnings with an RSS reader" 
http://curl.askapache.com/libcurl/php/examples/rss-adsense.html 

"Auto-Login to Google Analytics to impress Clients"
http://www.askapache.com/webmaster/login-google-analytics.html */

// Uncomment to only allow from IP 1.1.1.1
// if($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] !== '1.1.1.1') die();
$username=urlencode('myemail@gmail.com');
$password="mypassword";
$gacookie="./.gacookie";

$postdata="Email=$username&Passwd=$password&GA3T=5AS_gBsvDHI&nui=15&fpui=3&askapache=http://www.askapache.com/"
."&service=adsense&ifr=true&rm=hide&itmpl=true&hl=en_US&alwf=true&continue=https://www.google.com/adsense/report/overview&null=Sign in";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLoginBoxAuth");
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6");
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $gacookie);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $gacookie);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, 'https://www.google.com/adsense/report/overview');
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postdata);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
$AskApache_result = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $AskApache_result;
unlink($gacookie);
exit;
?>