credit card auth using curl function

Hi, I am using the CURL command to post credit card info to a gateway .exe program on a secure server. The code below works fine to produce the comma delimitted credit card authorization information to the browser page (for example: "declined","Invalid form data posted","8/29/2002","18:07","0","0","","","","" ), but I need to capture the credit card gateway authorization string so that I can take action within my PHP code, versus the user receiving the auth code returned on the browser page. Here is the code I am using: <html><body> <?php // // A very simple PHP example that sends a HTTP POST to a remote site // $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"http://secure.ibill.com/cgi-win/ccard/tpcard15.exe"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "reqtype=authorize&account=107036&password=1111&amount=12"); curl_exec ($ch); curl_close ($ch); ?> </body></html> It produces: "declined","Invalid form data posted","8/29/2002","18:07","0","0","","","","" at the browser... It is a valid decline on the credit card, which I am no concerned with, but I don't have this return to the user, want to parse the string and produce my own php output based on "accepted" or "declined" status. Any ideas? Stan