Shell scripting using cURL on windows for beginner - php

Question

I have a long list of URLs saved in excel and have a shell script to use with cURL to retrieve all URLs with errors, redirects, and/or connection timeout. I have never used cURL or shell. I need to use it on windows. So far I only know how to get to " C:\MyCurl>curl ". I have my shell script saved in a notepad. Can someone please tell me in specific detail what to do, including what the script and URLs should be saved as? It would be very helpful as I do not want to have to do each one manually and could be useful for many times in the future. Thank very much for your time.

Answer 1

I don't have enough details to answer your question about using a curl with a shell script on your local machine. But you may want to consider avoiding a shell altogether. PHP has a robust curl library. If you add the function below to your PHP script and call it with the URL as the parameter like:
$result = file_get_contents_curl( $url );
you will have code that's far more portable and scalable.
function file_get_contents_curl( $url ) {
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, TRUE );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0 );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1 );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE );
$data = curl_exec( $ch );
if ( curl_errno( $ch ) <> FALSE ) {
return FALSE;
}
curl_close( $ch );
return $data;
}