Convert cURL to PHP

How cURL to PHP works

The PHP output uses GuzzleHttp\Client with the request options array — headers, query, json, form_params, auth and proxy map one-to-one from the cURL flags. JSON bodies use json => [...], urlencoded bodies use form_params => [...], and multipart uploads use multipart => [...]. Guzzle throws GuzzleHttp\Exception\ClientException on 4xx and ServerException on 5xx by default, so the snippet uses try/catch. For projects that can't take a Composer dependency, the converter can also emit raw curl_setopt() code on request.

PHP code example

Realistic GET + POST with headers and a JSON body, written using Guzzle.

<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use GuzzleHttp\Client;
use GuzzleHttp\Exception\RequestException;

$client = new Client(['base_uri' => 'https://api.example.com', 'timeout' => 30]);

// GET with headers and query params
try {
    $response = $client->get('/users', [
        'headers' => [
            'Authorization' => 'Bearer YOUR_TOKEN',
            'User-Agent'    => 'MyApp/1.0',
        ],
        'query' => ['page' => 1, 'limit' => 50],
    ]);
    $users = json_decode((string) $response->getBody(), true);
} catch (RequestException $e) {
    fwrite(STDERR, "GET failed: " . $e->getMessage());
}

// POST with JSON body
$created = $client->post('/users', [
    'headers' => [
        'Authorization' => 'Bearer YOUR_TOKEN',
    ],
    'json' => ['name' => 'Ada Lovelace', 'email' => '[email protected]'],
]);
echo $created->getStatusCode(), PHP_EOL;

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