Firstly, locate your php.ini file, which in my case is in the default directory of xampp\php and edit with a notepad.
Locate and uncomment (remove the ; at the start of the line) the following lines:
extension=php_curl.dll
Restart your Apache server.
To test if cURL is successfully running on your Windows Apache Server, run phpinfo(); on your localhost like so:
You should see somewhere on that page a block that looks like this:
That's it
