title: Error on requireing CURL PHP extension with integrating Google OAuth with PHP on Ubuntu
body: <p>I am developing an application that requires integration with Google APIs Client Library for PHP. I am running on LAMP stack on Ubuntu. I have the application up and running on my local host. When I integrate the code from <a href="https://code.google.com/p/google-api-php-client/" rel="nofollow">Google API PHP client</a> I get the following error:</p>
  
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    <p>PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'Google CurlIO client requires the CURL PHP extension</p>
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  <p>I am unable to find help in any other forum. Can someone please point me to a solution to this. I suspect this could be somehow related to me developing and running the application in my local folder instead of var/www. I have added a file called mysite and pointing Apache to run from a local folder though.</p>