curl_getinfo

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

curl_getinfo — Get information regarding a specific transfer

Description

curl_getinfo(CurlHandle $handle, ?int $option = null): mixed

Gets information about the last transfer.

Parameters

handle

A cURL handle returned by curl_init().

option

One of the CURLINFO_* constants.

Return Values

If option is given, returns its value. Otherwise, returns an associative array with the following elements (which correspond to option), or false on failure:

  • "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"
  • "certinfo"
  • "primary_ip"
  • "primary_port"
  • "local_ip"
  • "local_port"
  • "redirect_url"
  • "request_header" (This is only set if the CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT is set by a previous call to curl_setopt())
  • "posttransfer_time_us" (Available as of PHP 8.4.0 and cURL 8.10.0)
Note that private data is not included in the associative array and must be retrieved individually with the CURLINFO_PRIVATE option.

Examples

Example #1 curl_getinfo() example

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

// Execute
curl_exec($ch);

// Check if any error occurred
if (!curl_errno($ch)) {
$info = curl_getinfo($ch);
echo 'Took ', $info['total_time'], ' seconds to send a request to ', $info['url'], "\n";
}

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

Example #2 curl_getinfo() example with option parameter

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

// Execute
curl_exec($ch);

// Check HTTP status code
if (!curl_errno($ch)) {
switch ($http_code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE)) {
case 200: # OK
break;
default:
echo 'Unexpected HTTP code: ', $http_code, "\n";
}
}

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

Notes

Note:

Information gathered by this function is kept if the handle is re-used. This means that unless a statistic is overridden internally by this function, the previous info is returned.