PHP- cURL enabled but sill not working

Question

I am using joomla and using WAMP as my server and I am trying to add a twitter feed to my website but I get this error message

*"Your PHP doesn't have cURL extension enabled. Please contact your host and ask them to enable it."

I then go to my PHP extensions and enable curl and i still get the same message. I even went into the php.ini file and edited it in there but still no change. Any advice on this issue would be really appreciated. Thank you

Answer 1

WAMPServer has more than one php.ini file. One for the configuration to use with Apache and one to use with the configuration of PHP CLI ( Command line Interface )

You could use the easy method :

Use the wampmanager menus ( thats the icon that sits in the system tray ).

ledt click wampmanager icon -> PHP -> PHP Extensions 

This will give you a menu containing all the extensions, make sure that php_curl has a tick mark beside it. If it does not then click that line in the menu and it will activate that extension. Give it a few seconds to process as it autonatically restarts Apache because that is necessary to activate a new extension.

Really could not be simpler.

Or you could edit the php.ini manually again using the wampmanager menus;

left click wampmanager -> PHP -> php.ini

This will launch notepad on the correct php.ini which is actually C:\\wamp\\bin\\apache\\apachex.yz\\bin\\php.ini .

Maually remove the ; (semi colon) beside the php_curl extension, save the file, and then restart Apache.

Answer 2

Warning: this can introduce security issues that SSL is designed to protect against.

But a really simple fix that worked for me was to call:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

before calling:

curl_exec():

in the php file.

I believe that this disables all verification of SSL certificates.

Answer by @Chris Dutrow