What is cURL in PHP?

Question

I just upgraded Squeeze to Wheezy, and have difficulties with cURL PHP extension: I can't enable it.

I have installed following packages related to this issue: curl, libcurl3, libcurl3-gnutls, php5-curl.

I have in /etc/php5/mods-available/curl.ini

; configuration for php CURL module
; priority=20
extension=curl.so

I know that cURL extension is not enabled because I want to install Moodle and it complains about cURL extension. How can I solve this problem?

Answer 1

cURL is a library that lets you make HTTP requests in PHP. Everything you need to know about it (and most other extensions) can be found in the PHP manual( http://php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php )

Answer 2

cURL is a library that makes HTTP requests in PHP.

Here are the few functions used in cURL.
curl_close — Close a cURL session
curl_copy_handle — Copy a cURL handle along with all of its preferences
curl_errno — Return the last error number
curl_error — Return a string containing the last error for the current session
curl_escape — URL encodes the given string