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cURL requirement?
SnipWire is highly dependent on Snipcarts REST API and uses the built-in functions of ProcessWire's WireHttp class for REST API queries. For this purpose the WireHttp class has been extended to allow parallel execution of cURL requests (cURL multi).
If the cURL extension is not available, the SnipWire Dashboard uses a fallback mode and sends the queries one at a time. This massively increases the execution time in some areas of the dashboard. It is therefore highly recommended to enable the cURL library for PHP.
Time-saving Hint
In some cases the ProcessWire installation doesn't seem to recognize the cURL support from your server. The following line in ProcessWire's WireHttp class checks for cURL support:
$this->hasCURL = function_exists('curl_init') && !ini_get('safe_mode') && !ini_get('open_basedir');
This means that you also need to disable open_basedir (and if you use an outdated PHP version, also disable safe_mode - which is deprecated as of PHP 5.3.0 and removed as of PHP 5.4.0) on your server!