Saving a curl response into a php variable

Question

I am trying to access my ec2\'s public hostname from inside the instance.

I would like to run this command

curl http:// 169 254.169.254/latest/meta-data/         


        

Answer 1

Shankar Damodaran provided an example of how to retrieve the response from a curl request, but specifically it is the

CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER that does as it says and returns the result from curl_exec