Can't find curl extension (PHP 8.1.25)

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Any idea why I should get this error…Missing PHP extension(s)! Please install or enable the following required PHP extension(s) first:
curl… when curl appears to be correctly installed? Wampserver reports…

-- PHP Loaded Extensions
 With function get_loaded_extensions()
-- For PHP 8.1.25 used as Apache module
 bcmath        calendar      com_dotnet    Core          ctype         curl         
 date          dom           exif          fileinfo      filter        gd           
 gettext       gmp           hash          iconv         imap          intl         
 json          ldap          libxml        mbstring      mysqli        mysqlnd      
 openssl       pcre          PDO           pdo_mysql     pdo_sqlite    Phar         
 readline      Reflection    session       SimpleXML     soap          sockets      
 SPL           sqlite3       standard      tokenizer     xdebug        xml          
 xmlreader     xmlwriter     xsl           Zend OPcache  zip           zlib         


-- For PHP 8.1.25 used as CLI or FCGI
 bcmath        calendar      com_dotnet    Core          ctype         curl         
 date          dom           exif          fileinfo      filter        gd           
 gettext       gmp           hash          iconv         imap          intl         
 json          ldap          libxml        mbstring      mysqli        mysqlnd      
 openssl       pcre          PDO           pdo_mysql     pdo_sqlite    Phar         
 readline      Reflection    session       SimpleXML     soap          sockets      
 SPL           sqlite3       standard      tokenizer     xdebug        xml          
 xmlreader     xmlwriter     xsl           Zend OPcache  zip           zlib

Is there some other magic I’ve missed?

2

Make sure you have also updated the PHP used by web server. You might have checked a different installation of PHP, not that run by the web server.

3

phpinfo.php reports the same version of php and that curl is installed??

4

You may create a simple script to test your web server by extension_loaded(") which is used by PHPMaker to test PHP extensions, e.g.

<?php
if (!extension_loaded('curl')) {
    echo "curl not loaded";
}
?>
5

Now fixed. In case anyone else has the problem, this is the story…
I had updated php 8.1.0 to 8.1.25. However, 8.1.25 has a little known bug when used with Apache 2.4.51 which causes curl NOT to work even though the curl module is installed!
Updating Apache to 2.4.58 fixes the problem.

6

THANK YOU - this cost me a whole day! I needed to downgrade from php 8.3 to php 8.2 to get the site to run - you were correct - CURL was not loading correctly. Much appreciated!!!