what is used as curl in php code example

Example 1: php curl

// set post fields
$post = [
    'username' => 'user1',
    'password' => 'passuser1',
    'gender'   => 1,
];

$ch = curl_init('http://www.example.com');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);

// execute!
$response = curl_exec($ch);

// close the connection, release resources used
curl_close($ch);

// do anything you want with your response
var_dump($response);

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);