Re: Weird Results from Curl

---- Ray Hauge <ray.hauge.lists@gmail.com> wrote: > Wolf wrote: > > I'm curling a site to process some data, all well and good but the results are > > baffling... > > > > $result = curl_exec($ch); > > curl_close($ch); > > echo "<HR>".gettype ($result); > > > > Of course that's not all the code, but the results contain: > > --------- > > 0 11 > > 0 1 > > 1 1 > > 1 11 > > 5 An Error Has Occurred During Processing. > > Error: An Error occured . > > A message has been sent to the System Administrator with the details of the problem you > > have encountered. 1 > > ---- > > > > What I can't seem to figure out is what the result type actually is and how to pull > > just the first piece (0,1,etc) out of the "0 11" that gets returned. > > > > I have tried to do a strlen conversion, that failed. I've tried bool converting but > > it doesn't come across right either. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Thanks! > > Wolf > > > > It sounds like the error message is being returned from the remote server. > > Is gettype() outputting the numbers, or is that part of the output from > curl? gettype should be returning a string, so I wouldn't think that > gettype would be returning the numbers. > > Are you using the CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER option? If so, then $result > would have the text of the site on success, and false on error. OK, I probably wasn't clear... The results from the server (0 11, 1 11, 0 1, 1 1, 5 Error.... 1, etc) are what I expect them to be, however I can't pull them out. *grumble* I forgot that I commented out the CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER line! UGH! Thanks! Wolf