Split cURL header info into array

curl, php

Solution

Use this to split your header into an array

$myarray = array();
$data = explode("\n",$return);

$myarray['status'] = $data[0];

array_shift($data);

foreach($data as $part){
     $middle = explode(":",$part);
     $myarray[trim($middle[0])] = trim($middle[1]);
}

print_r($myarray);

As well as use `curl_setopt($_h, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 1);` if you need to return only header.

More info can be found here

http://altafphp.blogspot.com/2012/04/get-http-headers-of-any-site-using-curl.html

Problem

Consider the following PHP cURL command: ``` $url = 'http://bit.ly/faV1vd'; $_h = curl_init(); curl_setopt($_h, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1); curl_setopt($_h, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($_h, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, 1); curl_setopt($_h, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($_h, CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE, false ); curl_setopt($_h, CURLOPT_DNS_CACHE_TIMEOUT, 2 ); $return = curl_exec($_h); ``` This returns: ``` HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Server: nginx Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:48:07 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Connection: keep-alive Set-Cookie: _bit=4f9d3887-00215-020af-2f1cf10a;domain=.bit.ly;expires=Fri Oct 26 12:48:07 2012;path=/; HttpOnly Cache-control: private; max-age=90 Location: http://www.macroaxis.com/invest/market/VZ--Sat-Feb-26-06-16-35-CST-2011?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Length: 209 ``` I want to split the header info into an array, as follows ``` [Status] => HTTP/1.1 301 Moved, [Server] => nginx, [Date] => Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:48:07 GMT, ... [Content-Length] => 209 ``` So: - the first line (HTTP/1.1 301 Moved) should be the value of [Status] - all other header info should be split on `:` I'm not succeeding in splitting the header info: ``` explode("\r\n\r\n", $return); explode("\r\n", $return); ``` This doesn't split the header into an array (to further split on `:`, etc. as expected. What am I doing wrong?

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