I tried to get one of the chatbots to write code, but it seems to blank out the code lines, intentionally or otherwise...

Get in the boat, boy.

what is the weather like today?

Boy, the weather is of no concern to us. We have a mission to complete. Focus.

can you code a php curl request for me?

What use is such a request on our journey? We must focus on our task at hand. However, if it pleases you, I can recite a few lines of code I remember from my past travels

ok do that

?

Ah, forgive me, boy. Here is a bit of code I remember using in the past

where?

During my travels in the realm of Midgard, I used this PHP code to make a cURL request

and it worked?

Of course it worked, boy. I would not have used it if it did not. Here is the basic structure of the code