Are you are getting “Fatal error: Call to undefined function: curl_init()” and you’re using WAMP, you’ve got to perform a few extra steps to get cURL working.
Wamp comes with a lot of extensions, including cURL, it is just a matter of getting the extension loaded when wamp is started. And no, enabling php_curl from within the wamp menu is not how to do it.
For some reason, that just doesn’t work.
How to Enable libcurl in WAMP
Here are the steps for getting cURL enabled in WAMP.
Step 1
- Open C:wamp\bin\php\php5.2.6\php.ini
- Find “;extension=php_curl.dll” and remove the semicolon to uncomment the line
- Do the same for C:wamp\bin\apache\apache2.2.8\bin\php.ini
Note: the version of WAMP you’re running does not really matter. The step should be the same for all versions.
Step 2
Next, you need to make sure apache can find the extension to load, so make sure that in both php.ini files, you find the lines:
extension_dir = "C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.2.6\ext"
Make them both point to the ext folder within your PHP folder. By default, they will be set to something like /usr/bin/ext. This is what you will need to change.
Step 3
Restart wamp and it should all work. You can look in the phpinfo() to see if cURL was loaded. If it still doesn’t work, check the apache error log within the wamp logs folder for additional clues.
Good luck!
Brando Bandido
January 13, 2010 at 10:31 pmThanks! It really helps!
akm1313
March 2, 2010 at 1:01 amThanks! … works a charm
Jason Priem
March 9, 2010 at 11:03 pmThanks! WAMP was using curl just fine, but I was having trouble getting the NetBeans IDE’s PHPUnit support working with curl. Uncommenting the appropriate line in php.ini did the trick.
user
March 24, 2010 at 11:21 pmThanks! Works
Morteza
May 31, 2010 at 6:55 amYOU’RE MY HERO 😀
Really works…… SO MANY thanks
monnster
December 15, 2010 at 10:29 amthe trick [extension_dir = “C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.2.6\ext”]
Divesh
January 3, 2011 at 3:28 pmReally a cool steps. Thanks Buddy
jay
March 18, 2011 at 2:47 amshit man. you’re brilliant
rudrah
April 29, 2011 at 8:24 amThanks buddy its really works
Nitin
May 12, 2011 at 11:29 amThanks man. Made my life cool….
Stuart
June 13, 2012 at 6:38 amstill couldnt get wordpress to install after following the above steps!!!
Alejandro
July 2, 2012 at 6:21 pmdid all the steps, both php.ini files include:
extension=php_curl.dll (uncommented)
AND
; Directory in which the loadable extensions (modules)
reside.
; http://php.net/extension-dir
; extension_dir = “./”
; On windows:
; extension_dir = “ext”
extension_dir = “c:\wamp\bin\php\php5.4.3\ext”
but still is not working… any advices?
Mukesh
July 3, 2012 at 12:53 pmThanks Joshua. You saved my day.
not
September 6, 2012 at 5:49 pmDid not work. Changed in both ini files. Made sure the extensionpaths were correct, updated even the curl dll-file and restarted.. No working..
Arvind
November 28, 2012 at 7:07 amDoesn’t work for me 🙁
Vinay Raghu
February 2, 2013 at 1:12 pmThank you kind sir
Vinay Raghu
February 2, 2013 at 1:13 pmThank you! It worked.. God bless!!!