There is not a lot of information about checking if a particular extension is loaded and the few tidbits there are on the internet, are very impractical, so I decided to dig a bit deeper and I came up with my own solution.
The following function returns TRUE if it can find the cURL extension installed, and FALSE if it fails to find it.
// ### Checks for presence of the cURL extension. function _iscurlinstalled() { if (in_array ('curl', get_loaded_extensions())) { return true; } else{ return false; } }
Sample usage:
if (_iscurlinstalled()) echo "cURL is installed"; else echo "cURL is NOT installed";