Put this on line 2:

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

Include this option before `curl_exec()`

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

In addition to the accepted answer, make sure you didn&#39;t set CURLOPT_VERBOSE to true, if you add this

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, true );

there will be output from cUrl, even with CURL_RETURNTRANSFER set to true

When should I use one or the other?

I&#39;d like all of the files I use in my app (images, sound, xml file, etc.) to be inside of the .exe file so I don&#39;t deploy with a bunch of folders and files.

Thanks for the info.

What&#39;s the difference between a Resource and an Embedded Resource in a C# application?

How do I type a QED symbol - I want a full box and not an empty box like `\qed` gives you. (I&#39;m not using `\begin{proof}`)

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When I use this code:

    $ch = curl_init($url);
    $statuses = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);

I am returned what I want, but if I just use that - `$statuses` is echoed out onto the page.

How can I stop this?

Don&#39;t Echo Out cURL

When I use this code:
<pre><code class="hljs language-ini">$ch = curl_init($url);
$statuses = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
</code></pre>
I am returned what I want, but if I just use that - <code>$statuses</code> is echoed out onto the page.
How can I stop this?

I have an array:  

`array( 4 =&gt; &#39;apple&#39;, 7 =&gt; &#39;orange&#39;, 13 =&gt; &#39;plum&#39; )`

I would like to get the first element of this array. Expected result: &lt;i&gt;string&lt;/i&gt; `apple`  

One requirement: *it cannot be done with passing by reference*, so `array_shift` is not a good solution.

How can I do this?


Get the first element of an array

Which of these code will be faster?

    $temp = $_REQUEST[&#39;s&#39;];

or

    if (isset($_GET[&#39;s&#39;])) {
      $temp = $_GET[&#39;s&#39;];
    }
    else {
      $temp = $_POST[&#39;s&#39;];
    }


Among $_REQUEST, $_GET and $_POST which one is the fastest?

I am trying to extract a substring. I need some help with doing it in PHP.

Here are some sample strings I am working with and the results I need: 

    home/cat1/subcat2 =&gt; home
    
    test/cat2 =&gt; test
    
    startpage =&gt; startpage

I want to get the string till the first `/`, but if no `/` is present, get the whole string.

I tried,

    substr($mystring, 0, strpos($mystring, &#39;/&#39;))

I think it says - get the position of `/` and then get the substring from position 0 to *that* position.

I don&#39;t know how to handle the case where there is no `/`, without making the statement too big.

Is there a way to handle that case also without making the PHP statement too complex?

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Is there a quick way to calculate date difference in php? For example:

    $date1 = &#39;2009-11-12 12:09:08&#39;;
    $date2 = &#39;2009-12-01 08:20:11&#39;;

And then do a calculation, $date2 minus $date1

I read php.net documentation, but no luck. Is there a quick way to do it?

Date Difference in php on days?

Maybe someone did a tutorial that shows the important thing: Setting everything up and using it with MySQL?


Are there good tutorials on how to use PDO?

I have a cron job setup on one server to run a backup script in PHP that is hosted on another server. 

The command I&#39;ve been using is

    curl -sS http://www.example.com/backup.php

Lately I&#39;ve been getting this error when the Cron runs:

    curl: (52) Empty reply from server

If I go to the link directly in my browser the script runs fine and I get my little backup ZIP file.

What is the curl error 52 &quot;empty reply from server&quot;?

I&#39;m working on setting up credit card processing and needed to use a workaround for CURL. The following code worked fine when I was using the test server (which wasn&#39;t calling an SSL URL), but now when I am testing it on the working server with HTTPS, it&#39;s failing with the error message &quot;failed to open stream&quot;.

    function send($packet, $url) {
      $ctx = stream_context_create(
        array(
          &#39;http&#39;=&gt;array(
            &#39;header&#39;=&gt;&quot;Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded&quot;,
            &#39;method&#39;=&gt;&#39;POST&#39;,
            &#39;content&#39;=&gt;$packet
          )
        )
      );
      return file_get_contents($url, 0, $ctx);
    }

How to get file_get_contents() to work with HTTPS?

I want to post XML data with cURL. I don&#39;t care about forms like said in &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/84619/how-do-i-make-a-post-request-with-curl&quot;&gt;How do I make a post request with curl&lt;/a&gt;.

I want to post XML content to some webservice using cURL command line interface. Something like:

    curl -H &quot;text/xml&quot; -d &quot;&lt;XmlContainer xmlns=&#39;sads&#39;...&quot; http://myapiurl.com/service.svc/

The above sample however cannot be processed by the service.

---

Reference example in C#:

    WebRequest req = HttpWebRequest.Create(&quot;http://myapiurl.com/service.svc/&quot;);
    req.Method = &quot;POST&quot;;
    req.ContentType = &quot;text/xml&quot;;
    using(Stream s = req.GetRequestStream())
    {
        using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(s))
            sw.Write(myXMLcontent);
    }
    using (Stream s = req.GetResponse().GetResponseStream())
    {
        using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(s))
            MessageBox.Show(sr.ReadToEnd());
    }

How do I POST XML data with curl

If I have a YouTube video URL, is there any way to use PHP and cURL to get the associated thumbnail from the YouTube API?

How do I get a YouTube video thumbnail from the YouTube API?

I am working on my [REST client library for CodeIgniter][1] and I am struggling to work out how to send PUT and DELETE arguments in PHP.

In a few places I have seen people using the options:

    $this-&gt;option(CURLOPT_PUT, TRUE);
    $this-&gt;option(CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $params);

Annoyingly, this seems to do nothing. Is this the correct way to set PUT parameters?

If so, how do I set DELETE parameters?

*$this-&gt;option() is part of my library, it simply builds up an array of CURLOPT_XX constants and sends them to curl_setopt_array() when the built up cURL request is executed.* 

I am attempting to read PUT and DELETE parameters using the following code:

        	case &#39;put&#39;:
		    	// Set up out PUT variables
		    	parse_str(file_get_contents(&#39;php://input&#39;), $this-&gt;_put_args);
    		break;
    		
        	case &#39;delete&#39;:
		    	// Set up out PUT variables
		    	parse_str(file_get_contents(&#39;php://input&#39;), $this-&gt;_delete_args);
    		break;

There are two options here, I am approaching this in the wrong way or there is a bug somewhere in my libraries. If you could let me know if this should theoretically work I can just hammer away on debug until I solve it.

I dont want to waste any more time on an approach that is fundamentally wrong.

  [1]: http://github.com/philsturgeon/codeigniter-restclient

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