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, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $pass);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close ($ch);

The problem is that is spews out the entire page to the user. Instead I want to capture the output and simply show a "success" or "failed" message?

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().