note 33665 deleted from ref.curl by danbrown
| From: | danbrown@php.net | Date: | Sun, 17 May 2009 19:44:53 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 33665 deleted from ref.curl by danbrown | ||
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Note Submitter: php at mechintosh dot com
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IMHO the example code is somewhat confusing; the fopen() and fclose() are not needed at all, AFAICT.
By default the resulting data/page of the external server is just printed out. To assign the result
of the curl session to a variable, one can use
- output buffering (see ob_start(), ob_get_contents())
- curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
With the latter, the result of curl_exec is the actual data instead of a boolean.