Re: Weird Results from Curl

---- Ray Hauge <ray.hauge.lists@gmail.com> wrote: > Wolf wrote: > > ---- 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 > > CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER has gotten me a few times. The default of just > outputting the information directly to the browser always seemed a bit > odd to me. Maybe that's just because I've only used it for scraping and > reading data. Yeah, the interesting thing though was I was getting the information that I needed really out of the result stack, but the format was completely hosed. Probably because it was essentially trying to read the stream instead of the data. *GRUMBLE* TGIF!!! Wolf