Grabbing CSV over cURL in PHP

Question

Unfortunately, I cannot use either fopen or file_get_contents, so my working script has become a broken one using cURL:

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, C         


        

Answer 1

Set CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER to 1 so you get something into $tmp, otherwise curl_exec outputs the csv directly (and before you send the headers). See http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php

Answer 2

By default curl_exec returns a boolean. You need to set the CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER option to 1 or true to get the transfer payload returned.

Answer 3

Ok there could be a couple of places which went wrong, most likely the $tmp variable will be your key.

I am assuming the $url and $start variables have been declared correctly

First thing I would suggest is to do something along the lines of:

    if( ! $tmp = curl_exec($ch))
        {
           echo curl_error($ch);
        } 

    else
    {

        header("Content-type: application/csv");
        header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$start.csv");
        header("Pragma: no-cache");
        header("Expires: 0");
        echo $tmp;
    }
    curl_close($ch);

Might give you an idea about what is going wrong

Answer 4

I believe that curl_exec($ch) will not return a string unless you use curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true) first.