cURL Get

[SecondCity]

In this code...

 

 

    $ch = curl_init();
    
    if($ch === false)
    {
        die('Failed to create curl object');
    }
    
    $timeout = 5;
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
    $data = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    return $data;
}
 

 

 

Is it correct that when cURL runs it fetches the contents of the web page located at the above URL and then stores the webpage's HTML into a variable called $data ?

 

 

[requinix]

Yes. But if that's all you're doing then you might as well just use file_get_contents() instead.

[SecondCity]

Yes. But if that's all you're doing then you might as well just use file_get_contents() instead.

 

I am trying to learn to use cURL so I can send an xml string to a payment processor and then get a response back.

 

Don't have any experience with cURL or XML...