curl in php library code example

Example 1: curl php example

function makeAPICall($url){

        
        $handle = curl_init();

         
        // Set the url
        curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
        // Set the result output to be a string.
        curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
         
        $output = curl_exec($handle);
         
        curl_close($handle);
         
        echo $output;
    return $output;
    }

Example 2: curl php

// Initialize Curl 
 $curl = curl_init();
 curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://coinmarketcap.com/"); // set live website where data from
 curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE); // default
 curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE); // default
 $content = curl_exec($curl);

 preg_match_all('!<p color="text3" class="sc-AxhUy bzeXdk coin-item-symbol" font-size="1">(.*?)</p>!', $content, $matches);

 var_dump($matches);