Question

I am a complete newbie to php curl. Can anyone tell me where to start? I need to import some information from another web page and store it in my database after some modifications.

Answer 1

Start: http://php.net/manual/en/curl.examples-basic.php

If you need to retrieve the output and manipulate it, just use the curl_setopt function, as curl_setopt(CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,TRUE);.

Example where we retrieve the output from http://www.google.com and output it on the screen:

$ch = curl_init('http://www.google.com');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,TRUE);

$output = curl_exec($ch);
var_dump($output);