WeProxy proxy setup for PHP

The most common way to use WeProxy in PHP is cURL. No Composer package is required — only the curl extension. This short guide shows how to verify your exit IP through an HTTP proxy with host, port, and credentials.

Requirements

• PHP 8.0+ with the curl extension (curl should appear in php -m)
• Host, port, username, and password from the WeProxy panel

Do not hard-code credentials. Keep them in environment variables.

export WEPROXY_HOST="gw.weproxy.com.tr"
export WEPROXY_PORT="8989"
export WEPROXY_USER="PROXY_USERNAME"
export WEPROXY_PASSWORD="PROXY_PASSWORD"

HTTP Proxy with cURL

<?php
$host = getenv('WEPROXY_HOST') ?: 'gw.weproxy.com.tr';
$port = getenv('WEPROXY_PORT') ?: '8989';
$user = getenv('WEPROXY_USER') ?: '';
$pass = getenv('WEPROXY_PASSWORD') ?: '';

$ch = curl_init('https://api.ipify.org');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, $host . ':' . $port);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, $user . ':' . $pass);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE, CURLPROXY_HTTP);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 20);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
echo curl_exec($ch);

If your package supports SOCKS5 and the panel enables it, set CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE to CURLPROXY_SOCKS5.

GitHub example

See the runnable sample, env setup, and short README in weproxy-io/php-proxy.

Sources

• PHP cURL: CURLOPT_PROXY
• WeProxy integrations