1.0 Welcome to PHP/CURL Book
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1.1 About this
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1.2 About the
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2.0 Getting Started with CURL PHP Book
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2.1 Before You Start
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2.2 Technical Requirements
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2.3 Installation
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3.0 Curl Library
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3.1 What is cURL ?
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3.2 What is libcurl ?
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3.3 What is PHP/CURL ?
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3.4 Who write PHP/CURL functions?
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3.5 The HTTP Protocol
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3.6 To cURL or to libcurl?
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4.0
PHP/CURL Functions with Examples
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4.1. Using libcurl with PHP
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4.2. Simple usage
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4.3. Forms
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1.1 GET
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1.2 POST
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1.3 Hidden Fields
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1.4 Figure Out What A POST Looks Like
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4.4. Download Image (Binnary File)
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4.5 Authentication
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4.6. Referer
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4.7. User Agent
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4.8. Redirects
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4.9. Cookies
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4.10. HTTPS (SSL)
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4.11. Debug
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4.12. XML, Credit Card Processing Solutions
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4.13. Post Custom Header to the Remote (Target) Server
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4.14. Upload a file to remote server from HTML form
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4.15. FTP Upload a file
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4.16. FTp Delete a File
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5.0
LibCURL Options
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6.0
Header Tracking Tools
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7.0
RealTime Example
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7.1. Ebay CURL PHP Login Script
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7.2. Ebay Summary Page After Login with PHP
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7.3 Calculate Fedex Shipping Charges with XML CURL PHP support. 51
7.4 Yahoo Email login and download Address Book .
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7.5 PayPal Login and download Transaction History.
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7.6 Hotmail Login and download Contacts List.
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7.7 Gmail address book download .
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8.0
Regular Expressions
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8.1. What are Regular Expressions?
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8.2. What exactly is possible with Regular Expressions?
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8.3 Regular Expressions in PHP
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8.4 Regular Expressions Examples
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8.4.1 preg_match function
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8.4.2 preg_match_all function
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8.4.3 preg_replace function
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8.4.4 preg_replace function
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8.4.5 'ereg','eregi','ereg_replace'
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8.4.6 Parsing Form for hidden fields
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8.4.7 Parsing Images linkes from HTML page.
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Appendix
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Appendix
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References
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