cURL on Linux not compiled, although installed

Question

cURL is not compiled into PHP. I'm running:

[root@vps ~]# cat /etc/issue
CentOS release 5.7 (Final)
Kernel \r on an \m

Then I execute yum install curl and yum install php-curl. Then:

   [root@vps ~]# which curl
    /usr/bin/curl
   [root@vps ~]# /usr/bin/curl -v
curl: no URL specified!
curl: try 'curl --help' for more information

My environment still shows that I haven't compile curl into php. Why?

I used phpinfo(), which shows:

but when I install zencart on my vps hosting, it shows:

How can I fix this?

Answer 1

Check if by any chance curl_init() is on the disabled_functions of your php.ini, because from what I see here the Zencart installer checks that.

Also, on a test script (like the one you created for phpinfo()) try this to see what happens:

var_dump(curl_init());