curl_getinfo

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.4, PHP 5)

curl_getinfo — Get information regarding a specific transfer

Description

mixed curl_getinfo ( resource $ch [, int $opt = 0 ] )

Gets information about the last transfer.

Parameters

ch

A cURL handle returned by curl_init().

opt

This may be one of the following constants:

• CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL - Last effective URL
• CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE - Last received HTTP code
• CURLINFO_FILETIME - Remote time of the retrieved document, if -1 is returned the time of the document is unknown
• CURLINFO_TOTAL_TIME - Total transaction time in seconds for last transfer
• CURLINFO_NAMELOOKUP_TIME - Time in seconds until name resolving was complete
• CURLINFO_CONNECT_TIME - Time in seconds it took to establish the connection
• CURLINFO_PRETRANSFER_TIME - Time in seconds from start until just before file transfer begins
• CURLINFO_STARTTRANSFER_TIME - Time in seconds until the first byte is about to be transferred
• CURLINFO_REDIRECT_TIME - Time in seconds of all redirection steps before final transaction was started
• CURLINFO_SIZE_UPLOAD - Total number of bytes uploaded
• CURLINFO_SIZE_DOWNLOAD - Total number of bytes downloaded
• CURLINFO_SPEED_DOWNLOAD - Average download speed
• CURLINFO_SPEED_UPLOAD - Average upload speed
• CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE - Total size of all headers received
• CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT - The request string sent
• CURLINFO_REQUEST_SIZE - Total size of issued requests, currently only for HTTP requests
• CURLINFO_SSL_VERIFYRESULT - Result of SSL certification verification requested by setting CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER
• CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD - content-length of download, read from Content-Length: field
• CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_UPLOAD - Specified size of upload
• CURLINFO_CONTENT_TYPE - Content-Type: of downloaded object, NULL indicates server did not send valid Content-Type: header

Return Values

If opt is given, returns its value as a string. Otherwise, returns an associative array with the following elements (which correspond to opt):

• "url"
• "content_type"
• "http_code"
• "header_size"
• "request_size"
• "filetime"
• "ssl_verify_result"
• "redirect_count"
• "total_time"
• "namelookup_time"
• "connect_time"
• "pretransfer_time"
• "size_upload"
• "size_download"
• "speed_download"
• "speed_upload"
• "download_content_length"
• "upload_content_length"
• "starttransfer_time"
• "redirect_time"

Changelog

Version	Description
5.1.3	Introduced CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT.

Examples

Example #1 curl_getinfo() example

<?php
// Create a curl handle
$ch = curl_init('http://www.yahoo.com/');

// Execute
curl_exec($ch);

// Check if any error occured
if(!curl_errno($ch))
{
 $info = curl_getinfo($ch);

 echo 'Took ' . $info['total_time'] . ' seconds to send a request to ' . $info['url'];
}

// Close handle
curl_close($ch);
?>