Get a cURL command from the PHP's object - php

Question

Is it possible to get the cURL command from the PHP's object? I mean, make this:
$ch = curl_init('http://'.$host . $url);
//...
$response = curl_exec($ch);
Look like this:
curl -X POST -d http://www.google.com/
Is it possible? Is there a trick or a native method?

Answer 1

It's not possible to get the command line equivalent (options) to execute the tool curl from the PHP library cURL.
Both tool and PHP library use libcurl to perform client-side URL transfers, which is a C library. But that's all. Very likely you have a PHP equivalent for most of curl options available in cURL, however, it's not a rule.
I don't think you simply would like to do requests from your application using curl, if you want so, you'd be using PHP library's. That said, there is no easy way to get what you want. Probably you'll need to build the command as a string. Something like this:
function getCurlCommand($url, $method = 'GET', array $params = null /* , ... */ )
{
$cmd = 'curl';
$params = [];
if ($method !== 'GET') {
$params[] = '-X ' . $method;
}
if ($data !== null) {
$params[] = '-d ' . http_build_query($data);
}
// ...
return $cmd . ' ' . implode(' ', $params) . ' ' . $url;
}