[RESOLVED] php curl upload question

swissmissflash

When I use curl to make a post to an external website is there anyway to control the data it returns? Say I have a external website that returns some info after I post to it with curl... I would like to control the information it returns back. Does curl have a variable or any way of controling the output from a post so I can use it as like a string?

Here is an example of the code I am using:

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"http://www.somewebsite.com/script.php");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,
            "var1=something&var2=etc");

curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);

Is there something I can do to control the output of that? Like put the output into a variable somehow?

Installer

As the manual says, for curl_exec:

If you want to have the result returned instead of it being printed to the browser directly, use the CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER option of curl_setopt().

So:

...
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$curl_return_string = curl_exec($ch);

swissmissflash

Thank you sooo much :-D