Close a cURL session (original) (raw)

curl_close

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.2, PHP 5, PHP 7)

curl_close — Close a cURL session

Description

curl_close ( resource $ch ) : void

Closes a cURL session and frees all resources. The cURL handle,ch, is also deleted.

Return Values

No value is returned.

Examples

Example #1 Initializing a new cURL session and fetching a web page

<?php // create a new cURL resource $ch = curl_init();// set URL and other appropriate options curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.example.com/"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);// grab URL and pass it to the browser curl_exec($ch);// close cURL resource, and free up system resources curl_close($ch); ?>

See Also

• curl_init() - Initialize a cURL session
• curl_multi_close() - Close a set of cURL handles