How to enable cURL in PHP / XAMPP

Question

How do I enable cURL in PHP?

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Answer 1

Since XAMPP went through some modifications, the file is now at xampp/php/php.ini.

Answer 2

For Ubuntu (and probably all Debian-Based) Linux Distributions:

sudo apt-get install php5-curl
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart 

You might have seen PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() before.

Answer 3

If none of the above solves your problem and have installed with php-x86 (Windows 32 bit), then problem may be of openssl - for more info : How to fix libeay32.dll was not found error

Answer 4

If you're are using MAMP, cURL is enabled by default.

Answer 5

to install php5-curl under opensuse:

sudo yast2

->software ->software management ->search for curl ->check php5-curl case and accept.

after installation you need to restart apache server

service apache2 restart

Answer 6

Steps for Windows 7:

1. Ensure that the php.ini file that the PHP engine uses is the one you think it is.
2. Ensure extension_dir in php.ini is correctly set to the ext folder
3. Ensure extension=php_curl.dll in the php.ini is uncommented

Finally and maybe the one most people don't know: 4. Ensure that there are these two files in the Windows System32 folder: libeay32.dll ssleay32.dll If not there, you may copy these two files from the php folder.