managing curl output in php

Question

How do I hide the output from curl in PHP?

My code as it stands is the following:

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt(         


        

Answer 1

Use this option to curl_setopt():

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

This will make curl_exec return the data instead of outputting it.

To see if it was successful you can then check $result and also curl_error().

Answer 2

Also make sure to turn off this option:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 0);       

Or else it will still print everything to screen.