Question

Hi I’m trying to use this script to return a value from another php script on my site without leaving the page, but I am getting the number 1 after the string (I’m assuming that the 1 is the resource number) This is the script:

<?php
 // create a new cURL resource
 $ch = curl_init();

// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.example.com/");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);

// grab URL and pass it to the browser
$result = curl_exec($ch);

// close cURL resource, and free up system resources
 curl_close($ch);

echo $result;
 ?>

Output is somthing like this: 
"<?php include \\\\localfolder\\blabla\script.php ?>1" 

and the 1 at the end is what I don’t want showing up.

Thanks,

Robert

Answer 1

You need to set the CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER option to true:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

From the documentation:

CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER
TRUE to return the transfer as a string of the return value of curl_exec() instead of outputting it out directly.