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PARAMETERS

1) url - required. Alows you to specify URL of the web page you want to fetch using cURL library.

2) post_vars - optional. Alows you to specify names of $_POST variables which will be sent
while fetching the web page. You may specify several $_POST variable names using pipe operator.
Any $_POST variable name can then be used as parameter of exp:curl tag to set variable’s value.
E.g. post_vars=“var_name1|var_name2” var_name1=“yes” var_name2=“no”

3) connect_timeout - optional. Alows you to specify the number of seconds to wait
while trying to connect. Use 0 to wait indefinitely. Default value for this parameter is “2”.

4) timeout - optional. Alows you to specify the maximum number of seconds to allow cURL functions to execute.
Default value for this parameter is “10”.

5) setopt_vars - optional. Alows you to specify names of parameters of curl_setopt() function.
About curl_setopt() function look at http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php
You may specify several parameter names of curl_setopt() function using pipe operator.
Any parameter name can then be used as parameter of exp:curl tag to set variable’s value.
E.g. setopt_vars=“CURLOPT_NOBODY|CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION|CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS”
CURLOPT_NOBODY=“TRUE” CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION=“TRUE” CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS=“1”

6) string_param_convert - optional. Set this parameter to “yes” in case you get PHP error
curl_setopt() expects parameter 2 to be long, string given

USAGE

{exp:curl url="http://www.example.com" post_vars="var_name|var_name2" var_name="yes" var_name2="no" connect_timeout="5" timeout="15" setopt_vars="CURLOPT_NOBODY" CURLOPT_NOBODY="TRUE"}

{if curl_result == ""}
<p>Sorry. The site example.com are bunch of poopy heads.</p>
{/if}

{curl_result}

{/exp:curl}