Re: cURL uses

Philip Thompson wrote:

I've been doing some reading trying to figure out why I would want to use cURL. I have not found a solid reason yet. Does anyone have a useful example on why you would want to use cURL? It allows significant configurability and flexibility over PHP's more direct functions, for example, the ability to set a timeout, or get more direct control over output. You only have to read the curl documentation to see that it can do a lot of things that other PHP functions just can't do.

I would suggest that you probably shouldn't try to find a reason to use curl, rather a reason to use curl will find you. jon