Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers, 2nd Edition

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 Example A-1 is unusual in its brevity. Usually there are many calls to curl_setopt(). Over 90 separate configuration options are available within PHP/CURL, making the interface very versatile.^[102] 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 likely 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 configuration may be reused as often as needed within the same ...