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cUrl Moved Away From Resource
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Curl functions have moved from resource to objects in PHP 8.0. Instead of returning a resource, it now returns a ``CurlHandle`` object. Checks based on is_resource() must be upgraded, and are now dead code.

PHP code
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.. code-block:: php

   <?php
   
   var_dump(curl_init('https://www.php.net'));
   
   ?>

Before
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.. code-block:: output

   resource(4) of type (curl)
   

After
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.. code-block:: output

   object(CurlHandle)#1 (0) {
   }
   


PHP version change
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This behavior changed in 8.0


See Also
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* `curl_init <https://www.php.net/manual/fr/function.curl-init.php>`_