What is cURL module of PHP and how do I enable it?

PHP
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Hello,

Some background info:
We do payment processing via Paypal/Verising.
To do such payment processing with them our PHP program needs to establish
a http connection with them which is apparently done by calling some cURL related functions such as curl_initi();

What is cURL module of PHP?
How do I add it to our PHP installation?
FYI, i checked the php.ini of our PHP and it id not even mentioned there!

Regards,

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I just happen to be reading up on cURL also, but for Authorize.net. Here’s the link:

http://us2.php.net/curl

Seems pretty straight forward.

Scott

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Hi Scott,

Did you install cURL on your server?
How difficult was it?

Did you have to compile PHP after?

Regards,

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I’m running WAMP on my testing server and it’s enabled by default. Not sure what version of PHP your running, but I believe all you have to do it is uncomment it in your php.ini file. But I noticed that you said you could not find it in your php.ini. Maybe another quick look and you might find extension=php_curl.dll under your extensions and uncomment it.

Check out this link: http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/php/install.html#windows

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Hello Scott,

Thanks for the info.
But we are running a Linux server.
And I find no mention of “curl” in php.ini of it at all.

So where you able to finish the programming via curl easily/quickly
to call the payment processor to process the payment?

Regards,