Any substitute of cURL?

[nonsensep]

I'm trying to make a web api that sends requests to other domains, but since AJAX can't do this alone, I found a PHP script using cURL that could:

<?php

$url = $_GET["url"];

$session = curl_init($url);

curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

$xml = curl_exec($session);

header("Content-Type: text/xml");

echo $xml;

curl_close($session);

?>

But cURL isn't installed in x10hosting. Since cURL is just a library and not a service like mySQL, I was wondering if there was an alternative way of doing this using just PHP or maybe a library that is installed.

 

[Slothie]

Of course there is, its called fsockopen

 

[nonsensep]

Thanks. I just found a bunch of PHP network functions by searching for that one.

 

[Slothie]

Gimme some rep

 

[Bryon]

cURL is installed for PHP versions 2 and 3 on all servers.

But cURL isn't installed in x10hosting.

What do you mean that it is not?

 

[nonsensep]

cURL is installed for PHP versions 2 and 3 on all servers.



What do you mean that it is not?

It said that the curl_init was undefined, so I figured it isn't installed.

 

[Sohail]

You have to request PHP version 2. Goto - http://x10hosting.com/account/ and request version 2 from there. If your reason is good enough then you should have it activated for you within 24 hours.

 

[nonsensep]

That's ok. fsockopen() works just fine.