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run curl in vista

Hi,

Just a few questions on curl. I have apache 2.x and php 5.3 on my vista home machine.

1) I'm wondering how I can run this bit of code:

curl -F type=client_cred \
 -F client_id=your_app_id \
 -F client_secret=your_app_secret \
 https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token

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2) What are the backslashes at the end of the lines of the command above? Is that a return carriage? So do enter one line at a time in the above?

3) Can someone give me the code in php for the above code? In other words, executing the code above using php's curl_init() and curl_exec().

Much thanks,
Victor

Rob

1) You can download and run "curl for windows" http://curl.haxx.se/download.html

2) the backslashes are indicating that the command continues onto the next line

3) coming soon...

Rob

<?php
// create a new cURL resource
$ch = curl_init();

// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token");

// set the form data, assuming client_cred, your_app_id and your_app_secret are all PHP variables
$form_data = Array(
    "type"=>$client_cred,
    "client_id"=>$your_app_id,
    "client_secret"=>$your_app_secret
);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $form_data);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

// grab URL and pass it to the browser
curl_exec($ch);

// close cURL resource, and free up system resources
curl_close($ch);
?>

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Victor Kimura

ASKER

Hi tagit,

That's great. Thank you for the code! I haven't tested it but I will shortly. Just wondering if there is any output from the browser can I capture it by this code:

$output = curl_exec($ch);

$fh = fopen('prn.txt', 'w');
fwrite($fh, $output);

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Victor

Rob

this is probably more applicable if you are wanting to capture the data somehow as this example writes the output to the file you can then read from

<?php

$ch = curl_init("http://www.example.com/");
$fp = fopen("example_homepage.txt", "w");

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);
?>

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Victor Kimura

ASKER

Hi tagit,

Thanks.

I'm wondering which one should I download for the Windows curl program:
cygwin or generic

I have vista 32-bit. The generic ends up with only a windows 2000/xp version for the 32-bit.

Rob

try using the php code first without downloading curl, you shouldn't need it.

Victor Kimura

ASKER

Hi tagit,

Yeah, I tried the code and tried to save the output to a file. It's blank. So I don't know if facebook gave the wrong code or not. I was going to test it the curl on windows. I didn't include the security code but the result is just a blank output. I didn't receive any errors in the php. Is there perhaps something wrong with my php code?

<?php
// create a new cURL resource
$ch = curl_init();

// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token");

$your_app_id = '206755489364466';
$your_app_secret = '';//for security reasons I didn't include this.

// set the form data, assuming client_cred, your_app_id and your_app_secret are all PHP variables
$form_data = Array(
    "type"=>$client_cred,
    "client_id"=>$your_app_id,
    "client_secret"=>$your_app_secret
);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $form_data);
$fp = fopen("example_homepage.txt", "w");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

// grab URL and pass it to the browser
curl_exec($ch);

// close cURL resource, and free up system resources
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);
?>

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