Call to undefined function Unirest\curl_init()

[Rauf Pere]

Hey

When I call matecritic.php I get this fatal error: Call to undefined function Unirest\curl_init(). I have the php_curl.dll file under my php extensions. Ive also added my php directory in the system variable "path". I should probably note that im trying to call this script from a c++ program.

Could you maybe help me with this?

[Melroy van den Berg]

Did you also try example.php?

[Rauf Pere]

I have, It gives the same results.

[Melroy van den Berg]

OK. Can you give me some details about your setup. Are you using php in apache. Or command line (php cli) or?

Which version of php?

Etc.

[Rauf Pere]

Im using php in command line. For now, all my c++ program does is simulate a command line. It calls example.php and passes an argument (game name) to the script and should receive the JSON output echo. I have the following version of php installed: PHP 8.1.4 (cli) (built: Mar 16 2022 09:32:18) (NTS Visual C++ 2019 x64).

[Melroy van den Berg]

OK. So I can't reproduce the problem on my Linux machine with PHP cli. So PHP 8 should work.

The only option would be that curl is not enabled. Did you remove the semi-colon(;) in front of the extension=php_curl.dll line?

EDIT: Also keep in mind there are different php.ini files depending on FPM, Apache or CLI (command line).

[Melroy van den Berg]

You can validate whether cURL is enabled or not in PHP using and check the output:

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

Add this content to a phpinfo.php file for example.

The following output (or at least something similar) should be preset in the output of php phpinfo.php:

If not, you did NOT enable PHP curl. Again check if the dll is present and enabled it (removing the ;) in all your PHP.ini files.

[Rauf Pere]

I have a php.ini-development file and a php.ini-production file. extension=php_curl.dll was absent in both files so i just added it myself. There was a line in both files ;extension=curl and I removed the ; in both. The result is the same. I executed the phpinfo() and there is only one instance of curl mentioned:
. Its not like your output even tough I removed the ; .

[Melroy van den Berg]

I have a php.ini-development file and a php.ini-production file. extension=php_curl.dll was absent in both files so i just added it myself. There was a line in both files ;extension=curl and I removed the ; in both. The result is the same. I executed the phpinfo() and there is only one instance of curl mentioned: . Its not like your output even tough I removed the ; .

You are using windows right? Do not enable this other line please. That is for Linux only. Only apply the extension lines with dll at the end.

[Rauf Pere]

I think I managed to solve it.

Loaded Configuration File => was empty, so I just changed the php.ini-development file to php.ini. Now I dont get this error anymore.

[Melroy van den Berg]

Ah great. Good job.