cURL and PHP displaying "1"

Question

I have a PHP script with which I want to read servers from database and connect to them with cURL. Servers responds with results from sql query. The problem is that script after each respond from server displays number 1. The ouput looks like this: Server 1: some results 1Server 2: some results 1Server 3: some results 1 Here is the code that reads servers from database and connects to them: ``` "; $data = "val=a"; //just for testing $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data); curl_setopt($ch,…

Accepted Answer

Use the `CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER` option. Otherwise cURL will automatically echo the data and just return `true` (which is converted to `1` by echo).

```
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
```

PHP.net says,

TRUE to return the transfer as a string of the return value of curl_exec() instead of outputting it directly.

cURL and PHP displaying "1"

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