Here's an easier to follow example, From : http://arguments.callee.info/2010/02/21/multiple-curl-requests-with-php/// build the individual requests, but do not execute them$ch_1 = curl_init('http://webservice.one.com/');$ch_2 = curl_init('http://webservice.two.com/');curl_setopt($ch_1, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);curl_setopt($ch_2, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); // build the multi-curl handle, adding both $ch$mh = curl_multi_init();curl_multi_add_handle($mh, $ch_1);curl_multi_add_handle($mh, $ch_2); // execute all queries simultaneously, and continue when all are complete $running = null; do { curl_multi_exec($mh, $running); } while ($running);//close the handlescurl_multi_remove_handle($mh, $ch1);curl_multi_remove_handle($mh, $ch2);curl_multi_close($mh); // all of our requests are done, we can now access the results$response_1 = curl_multi_getcontent($ch_1);$response_2 = curl_multi_getcontent($ch_2);echo "$response_1 $response_2"; // output results