Update your Facebook status

10 awesome things to do with cURL

Published on June 29th, 2009 by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 91 Comments -

cURL, and its PHP extension libcURL, are tools which can be used to simulate a web browser. In fact, it can for example, submit forms. In this article, I’m going to show you 10 incredible things that you can do using PHP and cURL.

Acknowledgments

New to cURL? If yes, check out the following articles to learn the purposes and basics of cURL/libcurl.

• cURL Wikipedia page
• cURL tutorial: Using cURL to automate HTTP jobs

Please note that some of the techniques shown here can be used for “blackhat” methods. The goal of this article is only educationnal, please do not use any of the snippets below for illegal stuff.

1 – Update your Facebook status

Wanna update your facebook status, but don’t want to go to facebook.com, login, and finally being able to update your status? Simply save the following code on your server, define the variables, and voilà!