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

You can do like this

<?php  
//URL of targeted site  
$url = "http://www.yahoo.com/";  
$ch = curl_init();  

// set URL and other appropriate options  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);  

// grab URL and pass it to the browser  

$output = curl_exec($ch);  

//echo $output;

// close curl resource, and free up system resources  
curl_close($ch);  
?>  

The $output variable contains the response.

Answer 2

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