This article provides an example of using a proxy to make an HTTP request with the PHP programming language.

PHP Code

In this example, we use the Residential proxy below:

resi.ipv6.plainproxies.com:8080:customer:product--resi6--pass--nicepass

This proxy is split into four parts separated by colons. We first save the proxy as a string variable, then split it into four parts at each colon and then add it, with authentication, to our proxy dictionary.

$proxy_string = "resi.ipv6.plainproxies.com:8080:customer:product--resi6--pass--nicepass";  
$proxy_parts = explode(":", $proxy_string);  
$ip_address = $proxy_parts[0];  
$port = $proxy_parts[1];  
$username = $proxy_parts[2];  
$password = $proxy_parts[3];  
$url = "http://www.google.com/";  
$ch = curl_init();  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYPORT, $port);  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE, 'HTTP');  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, $ip_address);  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, $username.':'.$password);  
$data = curl_exec($ch);  
curl_close($ch);  
echo $data;

Updated on: 20/02/2025