cURL... am i out of luck?

[jwatts]

Hi all,
I'm sorry if this is written as clear as day for some, but i'm not very educated on php or curl or any of this stuff. I have a shopping cart (oscommerce), and trying to install an authorize.net payment module that asks for the path of the curl binary, if curl is not compiled. The site is on a windows server, so curl is not compiled but is a "standalone binary", and it's an hsphere account. After searching for 'curl' in the forums, my hopes are all but shot. But since i don't know a lot of the terminology used, maybe there's a chance i can get this thing working. My question is, can i use this authorize.net module that requires curl on my system, and if so, how can i find the path to the curl binary? Or am i just out of luck? Thank you so much for any help or answers you can give. Again, i'm sorry if this question is redundant and i just don't get it.

[mdallarosa]

php Curl support is enabled on all servers (at least on unix accounts, not sure about win). Check it executing phpinfo() in your account.
CURL support enabled
CURL Information libcurl/7.13.1 OpenSSL/0.9.7e zlib/1.2.2

Do not know why you need the path to curl binaries. You just can invoke curl within php without problem.

[jwatts]

If i understand it correctly, i think since it's a windows server, curl is not compiled into php, and so that's why you need to provide the path to the binary curl.exe. Where do you execute phpinfo()? Thanks a lot for the fast reply, i really appreciate that =)

[mdallarosa]

write the following script (test.php)
<?
phpinfo();
?>

[jwatts]

Thanks =) I ran that test.php, and unfortunately curl wasn't even listed anywhere So i guess it's not there. Is there anything else i can do?

[admin]

If it's not just open a ticket, a tech should be able to enable this for you.

[jwatts]

Great, thanks a lot!! And thanks again for your help mdallarosa!