How To Anonymize PHP cURL Requests Using Tor

tor_curl.php

<?php

$ip = '127.0.0.1';
$port = '9051';
$auth = 'PASSWORD';
$command = 'signal NEWNYM';
 
$fp = fsockopen($ip,$port,$error_number,$err_string,10);
if(!$fp) { 
    echo "ERROR: $error_number : $err_string";
    return false;
} else {
    fwrite($fp,"AUTHENTICATE \"".$auth."\"\n");
    $received = fread($fp,512);
    fwrite($fp,$command."\n");
    $received = fread($fp,512);
}
 
fclose($fp);
 
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://whatismyip.org");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, "127.0.0.1:9050");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE, CURLPROXY_SOCKS5);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 0);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
// close cURL session
curl_close($ch);