Curl POST puts character "0" on screen

[Corin]

I'm using curl to post variables to a script. It works fine, except on the output page I get a character "0" displayed for no apparent reason. If I do a view source, at the end of my script is :
<form blah blah.....
...form>

</body>
</html>

If I take the form out of the new page, I don't get this problem. Can anybody help me please. The curl code I'm using is :

<?
$URL="www.mydomain/newpage.php";
$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"http://$URL");

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "name=$name & age=$age");curl_exec ($ch);

curl_close ($ch);
?>

[Weedpacket]

As advertised on the curl_exec page, the value returned from curl_exec is displayed on the page (more exactly, output to STDOUT, which is the same thing). Either redirect it to to a file by specifying CURLOPT_FILE, (/dev/null if you like) or, as noted, use the output buffering methods.

[Corin]

Cheers - I've now managed to get around the problem by posting the info thro' hidden fields by using a middle data verification screen - tho' that probably doesn't make sense here. However I will still be looking into what you have said as I can see curl has a lot of potential. Thanks