PHP-curl prints result instead of returning it

Question

So my problem is that I am sending a curl request to a website and it's always printing the HTML response, for example:

<html><header>Example</header></html>

This is how I executed my curl:

$output = curl_exec($ch)

I did not echo out $output but it constantly returns the value over and over again.

Are you sure you don't print it? What's the code around this line – conditions, loops? — tobiv
– tobiv, Commented Oct 22, 2017 at 17:35
It's just curling to the website normally and nothing else. I don't echo anything. — user8209518
– user8209518, Commented Oct 22, 2017 at 17:35
Make sure you learn the difference between outputting and returning values. — Devon Bessemer
– Devon Bessemer, Commented Oct 22, 2017 at 18:18

tobiv · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-22 17:42:27Z

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You need to set CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER to true:

CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER: TRUE to return the transfer as a string of the return value of curl_exec() instead of outputting it out directly.

You can do this with curl_setopt (quote above from this doc):

curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true )

answered Oct 22, 2017 at 17:42

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user8209518 Over a year ago

Thanks! I appreciate your assistance.

tanjiya Over a year ago

Currently, I am trying to fetch string using CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER set to true. But, instead of resulting result.. it is returning empty array. Do you have any suggestion please?

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