Help fixing php/api/curl code please

Question

What I have in place, is a domain availability check, which connects up to an API and outputs \"Available: and Unavailable:\" from $tmp. Ths below code will only check the avail

Answer 1

This should answer your question: Persistent/keepalive HTTP with the PHP Curl library?

comment followup:

function getCurlPage($pageSpec) {
    if (is_null($ch)) 
        static $ch = curl_init($pageSpec);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, FALSE);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
    } else {
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $pageSpec);
    }
    $tmp = curl_exec($ch);
    ... do NOT close the curl handle, otherwise do the rest the same as before ...
}

Probably won't work as is, doing this off the top of my head and with only 2 hours sleep, but this should be enough to get you started.

And by the way, there's no need to do doublequotes for GetCurlPage("$url"), it's a waste of parser time, as PHP will have to create a new empty string, stuff $url into it, and pass the new string on down. Just do GetCurlPage($url).