This month while involved on the redesign of a very popular website I decided not to use HTML tables anymore - or at least avoid its use as much as possible. Ten years ago - when I started building websites - Tables were your friends not your foe. Along came CSS and the idea of separating the content from the way it is presented. CSS is been around for a while and almost all the sites currently use it somehow but do they use it well? Check out CSS Zen Garden and decide if your site allows being re-skinned as much as this site.It’s been an excellent experience and I’ll be posting some tips about how to build CSS-friendly sites in the future.

 

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These are the steps that worked for me:

1. Uncommented the line "extension=php_curl.dll" in php.ini file.
2. Copied libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll to C:\WINDOWS\system32. 

Note that these two dlls can be found on the PHP folder under the dlls folder. Adding this folder to the Windows PATH variable should also work.

You can use this simple test script - which retrieves and displays yahoo.com homepage - to verify that CURL is now working:

<?php
$ch = curl_init("http://www.yahoo.com/");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
?>