note 42009 modified in function.curl-setopt by vrana

I found it very annoying that cURL did not offer any easy way to extract the response headers. If you do curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1); then you only get the headers output inline with the rest of your response. Here's a nice little function to parse the cURL response when you use CURLOPT_HEADER. I took it from an example on another site and turned it into a function. It assumes you're using CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER to return the response to some variable that is then passed to the function. You just pass it a curl_exec result and it returns the result parsed into an array with headers broken up into their correct parts. <?php function parse_response($response){ /* ***original code extracted from examples at ***http://www.webreference.com/programming /php/cookbook/chap11/1/3.html ***returns an array in the following format which varies depending on headers returned [0] => the HTTP error or response code such as 404 [1] => Array ( [Server] => Microsoft-IIS/5.0 [Date] => Wed, 28 Apr 2004 23:29:20 GMT [X-Powered-By] => ASP.NET [Connection] => close [Set-Cookie] => COOKIESTUFF [Expires] => Thu, 01 Dec 1994 16:00:00 GMT [Content-Type] => text/html [Content-Length] => 4040 ) [2] => Response body (string) */ list($response_headers,$response_body) = explode("\r\n\r\n",$response,2); $response_header_lines = explode("\r\n",$response_headers); // first line of headers is the HTTP response code $http_response_line = array_shift($response_header_lines); if (preg_match('@^HTTP/[0-9]\.[0-9] ([0-9]{3})@',$http_response_line, $matches)) { $response_code = $matches[1]; } // put the rest of the headers in an array $response_header_array = array(); foreach ($response_header_lines as $header_line) { list($header,$value) = explode(': ',$header_line,2); $response_header_array[$header] = $value; } return array($response_code,$response_header_array,$response_body); } ?> --was-- I found it very annoying that cURL did not offer any easy way to extract the response headers. If you do curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1); then you only get the headers output inline with the rest of your response. Here's a nice little function to parse the cURL response when you use CURLOPT_HEADER. I took it from an example on another site and turned it into a function. It assumes you're using CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER to return the response to some variable that is then passed to the function. You just pass it a curl_exec result and it returns the result parsed into an array with headers broken up into their correct parts. function parse_response($response){ /* ***original code extracted from examples at ***http://www.webreference.com/programming /php/cookbook/chap11/1/3.html ***returns an array in the following format which varies depending on headers returned [0] => the HTTP error or response code such as 404 [1] => Array ( [Server] => Microsoft-IIS/5.0 [Date] => Wed, 28 Apr 2004 23:29:20 GMT [X-Powered-By] => ASP.NET [Connection] => close [Set-Cookie] => COOKIESTUFF [Expires] => Thu, 01 Dec 1994 16:00:00 GMT [Content-Type] => text/html [Content-Length] => 4040 ) [2] => Response body (string) */ list($response_headers,$response_body) = explode("\r\n\r\n",$response,2); $response_header_lines = explode("\r\n",$response_headers); // first line of headers is the HTTP response code $http_response_line = array_shift($response_header_lines); if (preg_match('@^HTTP/[0-9]\.[0-9] ([0-9]{3})@',$http_response_line, $matches)) { $response_code = $matches[1]; } // put the rest of the headers in an array $response_header_array = array(); foreach ($response_header_lines as $header_line) { list($header,$value) = explode(': ',$header_line,2); $response_header_array[$header] = $value; } return array($response_code,$response_header_array,$response_body); } http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php