Question

Is it possible to do a cURL post with PHP that will post my array of values and return only the curl_getinfo data but none of the page content? Here is an example of what I am currently using; it returns the page content into a variable.

However, every time it returns the page content it uses a lot of bandwidth. I’m trying to reduce the amount of bandwidth I use; all I really need back is the curl_getinfo data.

Would adding CURL_TIMECOND_IFMODSINCE accomplish this? (the page I’m posting to very rarely changes)

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);

$post_data = array();
$post_data["name"] = $name;
$post_data["age"] = $age;

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_data);
$output = curl_exec($ch);
$info = curl_getinfo($ch);

Answer 1

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

is used to return output

$output = curl_exec($ch);

set CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER to false so that it will not.

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 0);