Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 05/18/06 06:56

lawrence k wrote:
> I'm reading over this page:
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.curl.php
>
> What I'm missing is why? What problem does curl solve? What does it
> make easier? When would I use its functions, instead of simpler
> functions like file() or fsocketopen()?
>

Ever tried to post info to another page strictly through PHP?

Curl takes care of some of the overhead. Obviously you can do anything in PHP
that you can in Curl. Curl just makes things easier.

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