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John Barley
John Barley

Reputation: 13

stop page from showing up when making get request without redirect using curl

My goal is to make a get request to a specified url without a redirect and without a visual difference in the website. I want to make a get request like <img src="http://www.google"> does, which is without a redirect, silent in the background and without a visual difference in the page it is executed on. Here is my code:

$curl_handle = curl_init();
curl_setopt( $curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.google.com' );
curl_setopt( $curl_handle, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0);
curl_exec( $curl_handle );
curl_close( $curl_handle );

Now the problem with the above php code is that when it is run, the main page of http://www.google.com is loaded onto the page similar to an iframe. So my question is, how can i stop that from happening? How can i make the get request without any visual difference just like <img src="http://www.google.com"> does?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 735

Answers (1)

undone
undone

Reputation: 7888

Use CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER option to get content of requested URL instead of printing it to web page.

$curl_handle = curl_init();
curl_setopt( $curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.google.com' );
curl_setopt( $curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt( $curl_handle, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0);
curl_exec( $curl_handle );
curl_close( $curl_handle );

Upvotes: 2

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