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Setting PHP/CURL Options

The PHP/CURL session is configured with the curl_setopt() function. Each individual configuration option is set with a separate call to this function. The script in Listing A-1 is unusual in its brevity. In normal use, there are many calls to curl_setopt(). There are over 90 separate configuration options available within PHP/CURL, making the interface very versatile.^[94] The average PHP/CURL user, however, uses only a small subset of the available options. The following sections describe the PHP/CURL options you are most apt to use. While these options are listed here in order of relative importance, you may declare them in any order. If the session is left open, the configu-ration may be reused many times within the ...