cURL Requests with PHP

Introduction

cURL allows transfer of data across a wide variety of protocols, and is a very powerful system. It's widely used as a way to send data across websites, including things like API interaction and oAuth. cURL is unrestricted in what it can do, from the basic HTTP request, to the more complex FTP upload or interaction with an authentication enclosed HTTPS site. We'll be looking at the simple difference between sending a GET and POST request and dealing with the returned response, as well as highlighting some useful parameters.link