You may use any built in function, the phpinfo() of the server used for testing will be attached. You just need to retrieve the links, you don't need to worry about them being relative or absolute.

It should be able to be called from the command line and return the links, one per line. They include how the scripts will be measured (speed, accuracy, etc) and the prize list - $100 gift card for phparch.com, a one year subscription or *drum roll* an autographed picture of ProPHP podcast hosts Paul Reinheimer and Sean Coates.

To submit your entry just email it over to c7ycontests@phparch.com with the subject of "C7Y Contest - February" on it.

I ended up with the following error at make install: PHP Fatal error: Unable to start curl module in Unknown on line 0

Finding that it was a MySQL issue, he set about trying to find the issue (turned out to be a badly linked SSL library on MySQL's part). This issue is only in the MySQL binaries, though, so if you come across it you'll just need to compile MySQL by hand first, then compile PHP against it.