Curl Outputting Straight to Body

[AnthonyBrianMallgren]

I already know computers aren’t a great discipline to practice, but I’m waiting on seeing how Saudi Arabia reacts to a few things. Can you explain this?

Source:

<?php

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
$rss = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

?>

Then, it is automatically outputting it to the body of an HTML document:

https://yusi.free.nf/services/news.php

PHP: curl_exec - Manual

Is the documentation incorrect again?

This technology shit is about as weird as it’s programmers.

[Frank419]

RSS is XML. And this is what will happen if you output XML in HTML. Everything is working as expected.

[AnthonyBrianMallgren]

Documentation is saying it is suppose to return a string, i.e., populate the variable $rss. Where is it being output to the screen?

[Frank419]

Then you didn’t read the documentation, because the docs say it will output it directly:

On success, this function flushes the result directly to the stdout and returns true , or false on failure.

[AnthonyBrianMallgren]

I thank you. Can you explain the design decision in doing this?

[Frank419]

Eh? I’m not a PHP core dev. How I’m I supposed to tell you about that?

[AnthonyBrianMallgren]

I thought you may be able to make more sense of it than I could.

[Frank419]

You probably wants to do this as well:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

This tells PHP not to print the results.