curl_init() has been disabled for security reasons

Question

$url= "http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/search?tagged=php";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, ""); // this will handle gzip content
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
print $result;

Error

Warning: curl_init() has been disabled for security reasons on line 2

Warning: curl_setopt() has been disabled for security reasons on line 3

Warning: curl_setopt() has been disabled for security reasons on line 4

Warning: curl_setopt() has been disabled for security reasons on line 5

Warning: curl_setopt() has been disabled for security reasons on line 6

Warning: curl_exec() has been disabled for security reasons on line 7

Warning: curl_close() has been disabled for security reasons on line 8

May i Know the reason why my Curl not working ?

Solution 1

If you are on xampp look below

How to enable curl in xampp?

you should only need to change this php

C:\Program Files\xampp\php\php.ini

Solution 2

From your php.ini remove those above functions from disable_functions.

How to locate the php.ini file (xampp)

php.ini file is available in xamp folder

Solution 3

Contact your hosting! :)

Or try:

file_get_contents('http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/search?tagged=php');
// Most likely it's also blocked.

You can also try to download with streams.

Or use sockets and connect directly to server and send a HTTP request and parse the response yourself.

There are ways, don't know if they work on your setup... if cURL is not available.