Curl

ToddHarvey

created a php console project

stepping through a unit test, fails on curl_init with message "Call to undefined function curl_init()"

when I run phpInit() , there is no mention of curl.

I have a licensed product, but had first installed the trial version.

Is curl included? Is there some separate process to install it? I did sudo apt-get install curl libcurl4-openssl-dev in my Ubuntu, but have a feeling that is not related to running in Visual Studio.

MiloslavBeno

Hello Todd,

Thank you for your question.

It depends on what you are executing from VS. You have several options:

You can even run your project directly on your Ubuntu machine and execute/run it remotly (set it up in the Server tab, in the project properties as a custom server).
Or if you want you can run the project locally on Ubuntu (https://blog.devsense.com/2018/04/wsl).
Or run it on pbp build-in/IIS/IISEXpress locally. This is probably what you are doing right now as it's a default option. Go to the Server tab in the Project properties, you will find a link to your php.ini where you can turn on curl.

Search for ;extension=php_curl.dll' and uncomment this by removing the semi-colon ';' before it. Or just add it if it's not present at all.

Please let me know if that helped.

Thank you

ToddHarvey

Thanks so much! Fixed it straight away. I would never have thought of that.

Also, the philosophy of php coming out of the box restricted and then you open up what you need makes sense to me.

I am running local php, stepping through code in debugger displayed in visual studio. Such an easy development workflow. My friends publish to server and response write. I can't even imagine going back to that.

Glad the time zones worked out; very pleasant surprise to see this reply this AM.