Installing cURL on WindowsXP / IIS

Tonight I was messing around with PHP's cURL - A command line tool for getting or sending files using URL syntax. It all started because I need to handle cookies in PHP. After an hour or so, I finally go it to work on Windows XP / IIS. I wanted to give credit to the 3-4 web pages that helped me.

PHP: Curl - download information
blog.igeek.info
Tony Spencer

Basically in a nutshell:

1. uncomment the line in your php.ini where it says php_curl.dll and save the file
   
2. copy php4ts.dll and libeay32.dll, ssleay32.dll(these last two found in the "dlls" directory of your PHP directory) to SYSTEM (System32 for XP) folder
   
3. restart IIS(you might've to restart windows if you are on Windows 2000 or if you don't have php.ini path specified in the registry)
   

* make sure msvcrt.dll is in your System Folder

When I started this, I downloaded libeay32.dll, ssleay32.dll off the internet and stuck it in the System32 folder. For good half hour I was frustrated as to why it wouldn't work. Finally, I copied over the two files from the PHP folder and VOILA - it worked.

To check, I just created a quick phpInfo() and there it was:


Now the fun part begins....