What is CURL for PHP?

  • I want to import posts an comments from my Blogger but get this message in the importsection of WordPress admin.
    “Your web server is not properly configured to use this importer. Please enable the CURL extension for PHP and then reload this page.”

    What is Curl? Never heard of it, and I cant find anything about it here. I use Wp 2.0

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  • CURL is an extension to PHP which allows PHP code to open files which aren’t stored on the same server as the PHP script. This is necessary when importing, because the script needs to log into your Blogger blog. You should email your host and ask if there’s any chance of getting the CURL extension installed. It’s very useful and pretty standard among hosts.

    You can use a small script to test whether cURL is supported on your browser. You can check this post for the script and some details.

    I’ve e-mailed my host (b-one.net) and they tell me they won’t enable cURL. Is there some other way of importing my old blogger posts?

    See this thread:

    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/52342?replies=7

    If you are familiar with localhosting (i.e. XAMPP) then you can do the import or as a last resort you can ask a friend or somebody here to make this favor to you.

    Alas, I am not familiar with that, but with the help of FeedBurner, I managed to import my old blogger posts as RSS 2.0 files. Now I just have to try and get rid of some pesky weird characters left by the import… Thanks for your reply though!

    There might also be some blogger importer (or other importer you can use) that doesn’t rely wholly on cURL. I know a TON of plugins rely on it; I’ve always preferred to write my own retrieval functions… not as pretty, nowhere near as functional, but almost always works. ??

    -d

    I’m still getting the “Please enable the CURL extension for PHP and then reload this page” message, even after my host/provider said they enabled curl for me. They said CURL support enabled, CURL Information libcurl/7.10.5 OpenSSL/0.9.7b zlib/1.1.4.

    Any ideas why it’s not recognized? I just installed wp yesterday, so assume it’s the latest version… Thanks.

    Curl requires libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll. You can download them from https://www.dll-files.com. The files need to be in your Windows PATH. If you followed the PHP installation instructions in Chapter 2, they should go in the PHP folder. If you installed EasyPHP that may not work. You may need to put them in C:\WINDOWS\system32\.

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