PHP have cURL return HTML as function return string instead of outputing to client

Question

After making two cURL requests the second request I want to capture the returned HTML and pass it back to the calling function as a string. Right now it instead outputs the HTML to the client. I've messed with ob_end_clean() and ob_get_contents() without success.

Here is what I currently have...

function stuff()
{
 //user/pass stuff omitted.

 $ch = curl_init();
 curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST,0);
 curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER,0);
 curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HEADER,0);
 curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
 curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,1);
 curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE,$cookies);
 curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,"user=$cp_user&pass=$cp_pwd");
 curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,100020);

 ob_start();
 $f = curl_exec($ch);
 $h = curl_getinfo($ch);
 $p0 = explode('cpsess',$h['url']);
 $p1 = explode('/',$p0[1]);
 ob_end_clean();

 /***/
 ob_start();
 curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$q2a.$p1[0].$q2b);
 curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
 curl_exec($ch);
 $r = ob_get_contents();
 ob_end_clean();
 /***/

 curl_close($ch);

 return $r;
}

TiMESPLiNTER · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-13 07:15:25Z

1

Use

curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);

And then catch the returned content with

function stuff() {
    // function code before

    $r = curl_exec($ch);

    // function code after

    return $r;
}

Don't use any ob_ functions for this because if the CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER is not set explicit to true or 1 curl won't return or print out any content from the request.

answered Nov 13, 2013 at 7:15

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