How to test Curl PHP?

Question

I have a project hosted on a server, but I intend to do an integration for another site using Curl. But when passing the values from our database, it gives error in this site that I intend to do integration, saying that the data are incorrect. This site belongs to our group, but it’s on another server. I was informed that the problem may be that PHP is not doing the request for Curl, others say that the problem is in Curl, but when I take a look at info.php, Curl is active. Have some way to test the CURL.

Can anyone tell me why this occurs?

Answer 1

It would be better if you showed the part of the code that is giving error. But common errors when using CURL is the fact that it is not installed on the server, the way the data is treated and the SSL configuration. You can try the following:

Make sure it’s installed:

function _isCurl() {
    return function_exists('curl_version');
}

When setting the parameters put 0 (zero) to SSL:

$ch = curl_init("URL_PARA_CONECTAR");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
...

Treat the result as a json array:

...
$data = curl_exec($ch);
$response = json_decode($data, true); // o true indica que você quer o resultado como array

An example of configuration would be:

$valoresParaSubmeter = array('key1' => 'valor1', 'key2' => 'valor2');
$ch = curl_init("URL_PARA_CONECTAR");

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $valoresParaSubmeter);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
$response = json_decode($data, true); // o true indica que você quer o resultado como array

var_dump($response);

I hope I’ve helped. :)

Answer 2

I don’t have much patience to use the functions of Curl php, because you end up having to type a lot.

My suggestion is to use the Guzzle, which is a PHP library, which is a client for making HTTP requests.

You can install it by Composer.

Then I would use a simple request:

$client = new GuzzleHttp\Client();

$res = $client->get('https://u.github.com/user', [
    'params' => ['id' => 1]
]);

If the request has no errors, you can capture the response with a echo $res->getBody().

If the request fails, an Exception will be launched. So you can see if there is something wrong with the requests, or even capture them.

try{

    $rest = $client->get('https://non-exists');

} catch (\GuzzleHttp\Exception\RequestException $e) {

        var_dump($e->getResponse()->getBody());
}