diff --git a/php/examples/getpageinvar.php b/php/examples/getpageinvar.php
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+#
+# The PHP curl module supports the received page to be returned in a variable
+# if told.
+#
+$ch = curl_init();
+
+curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"http://www.myurl.com/");
+curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
+$result=curl_exec ($ch);
+curl_close ($ch);
diff --git a/php/examples/simpleget.php b/php/examples/simpleget.php
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+++ b/php/examples/simpleget.php
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+#
+# A very simple example that gets a HTTP page.
+#
+
+$ch = curl_init();
+
+curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.zend.com/");
+curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
+
+curl_exec ($ch);
+
+curl_close ($ch);
+
diff --git a/php/examples/simplepost.php b/php/examples/simplepost.php
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+++ b/php/examples/simplepost.php
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+#
+# A very simple PHP example that sends a HTTP POST to a remote site
+#
+
+$ch = curl_init();
+
+curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"http://www.mysite.com/tester.phtml");
+curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
+curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "postvar1=value1&postvar2=value2&postvar3=value3");
+
+curl_exec ($ch);
+curl_close ($ch);