Is there an analogue of Curl in PHP that does not require installation?

Question

PHP

Is there an analogue of Curl in PHP that does not require installation, that is, just a plug-in library?
Preferably NOT an Object Oriented Library.

Answer 1

The best library for http requests in PHP today is Guzzle. Works without curl if it's not available: guzzle.readthedocs.org/en/latest/overview.html#req...
But it has an OOP interface.

Answer 2

file_get contents?

Answer 3

Well damn. Exactly one query to Google gives excellent results, I advise you to use it.
https://www.google.ru/search?q=php+http+without+curl

Answer 4

Is it really so difficult to put a normal curl?
yum install php-curlcentos
sudo apt-get php5-curldebian
actually installation consists in library jumps.
You can download it for your distribution and connect it, in principle, it will be on the soap and it will come out