what is curl in php with example

Example 1: php curl get

PHP cURL GET Request
A GET request retrieves data from a server. This can be a website’s HTML, an API response or other resources.

<?php

$cURLConnection = curl_init();

curl_setopt($cURLConnection, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://hostname.tld/phone-list');
curl_setopt($cURLConnection, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

$phoneList = curl_exec($cURLConnection);
curl_close($cURLConnection);

$jsonArrayResponse - json_decode($phoneList);

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);