curl_exec() outputting destination contents to page?

Question

I'm using the following code:

$ch = curl_init('www.google.com'); $output = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch);

This is not the first time I've used cURL, and unless I'm mistaken the above code should retrieve the contents of google.com and store it in $output. Correct?

So, why then, does the above code output the contents (in this example the Google homepage) to the page? I'm not echo'ing anything out, but for some reason the curl_exec() function is outputting what it returns to the page.

Am I missing something?

DiverseAndRemote.com · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-25 22:22:28Z

you need to use

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

That will tell curl_exec not to output the results

so change it all to

$ch = curl_init('www.google.com'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); $output = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch);

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