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Asked: 2026-06-15T17:07:55+00:00

i’m trying to check my email with curl. I’ve got a function which connects

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i’m trying to check my email with curl.

I’ve got a function which connects to gmail:

function check_email($url)
{ 
    // sendRequest 
    $curl = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 0);
    $curlData = curl_exec($curl);
    curl_close($curl);

    //returning retrieved message
    return $curlData;
}

When I call the function and echo it ($email = check_email($ur);
echo $email;), gmail sends me some html instead of showing the message:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Moved Temporarily</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000">
<H1>Moved Temporarily</H1>
The document has moved <A HREF="-very large url-">here</A>.
</BODY>
</HTML>

so i want to then extract the "-very large url-" and curl to that, but when i var_dump($email) it says it’s a bool! why is it returning html if it’s a boolean and how can i get to the aforementioned html via php?

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  1. Editorial Team

    http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-exec.php says

    Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure. However, if the
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER option is set, it will return the result on
    success, FALSE on failure.

    Looks like you’ve got CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER set to 0 (false).

    http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php

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