PHP 7 curl not being loaded

Question

I have installed in my local computer apache 2.4 with PHP 7.1. I enabled curl in my php.ini (extension=php_curl.dll), but for some reason curl is not being loaded even after i enabled it, i made a phhinfo to check, and nothing, i also made a small script:

function isExtensionLoaded($extension_name){
    return extension_loaded($extension_name);
}

echo isExtensionLoaded('curl');

And nothing, is blank, what it means is not being loaded, is something missing? Im on Windows 10.

Solution 1

In my case it worked when I also copied nghttp2.dll to Apache bin directory

Solution 2

I was looking for a solution a really long time, until I decided to read some comments on the PHP documentation site: http://php.net/manual/de/curl.installation.php

I fixed coping the following list files from php folder (in my case C:\xampp\php7)

libeay32.dll
libssh2.dll
ssleay32.dll

Some people also had to move nghttp2.dll for it to work.

To your apache/bin folder (C:\xampp\apache\bin in my case).

I also copied those to C:\Windows\System32, but I do not think any of these files were loaded.

EDIT: I successfully deleted these dlls from system32 folder and was able to run curl afterwards

Solution 3

It works if you set ssl VERIFYPEER to false

curl_setopt($get, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

it will works fine . you can also make curl work withe ssl by downloading the cacert.pem from https://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html and Adding the cert to your php.ini file

curl.cainfo="C:\path\cacert.pem" 
openssl.cafile="C:\path\cacert.pem"

and

curl_setopt($get, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, true);

will work too this way you can prevent man-in-the-middle attacks, check this link for more details http://thisinterestsme.com/php-curl-ssl-certificate-error/

Comments

[hassan]

make sure that you've restarted your apache2 server

[Vural]

"blank" means, "its loading, but can't display" or "it throws error but error logging is not activated in php.ini" etc....

[Pedro]

Hello is giving me this error: "PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\PHP\ext\php_curl.dll"

[Pedro]

Its this: extension_dir = "C:\PHP\ext"

[Vural]

Can you please check httpd.conf file, I guess mod_ssl.so is not installed and check my updated answer please

[Pedro]

Yes, i already enabled, it was comment and i remove the comment :LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so

[Adam Cameron]

Those three and nghttp2.dll as well, for me. Cheers (also to @nick-proto)

[Álvaro González]

I can't understand why third-party bundles are so popular yet you apparently always need to do workarounds like this for simple features. In the official PHP binaries curl always works out of the box :-?

[Jerusalem Programmer]

Thanks, bro! Your solution helped me with my overlapping problem here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71110013/how-to-enable-c‌​url-locally-on-my-wi‌​ndows-10-so-that-my-‌​php7-localhost-with-‌​or-w?