Question

I’m calling this example request from within some PHP code on a web page:

https://api.twitter.com/1/followers/ids.json?cursor=-1&screen_name=twitterapi

I get the Json result back which is great – but it is always printed within the web page so my users can see it. How do I do the request but prevent it from outputting to the page?

    $curl_handle=curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_URL,'https://api.twitter.com/1/followers/ids.json?cursor=-1&screen_name=twitterapi');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$result = curl_exec($curl_handle);
curl_close($curl_handle);

Thanks

Answer 1

Assuming you have also fixed the missing closing quote in your URL…

You are using the wrong variable to point to the curl handler in your second curl_setopt() call, and therefore not setting the return transfer option correctly:

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
// Should be
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);