CURL in php returns a display text in my page

Question

Hi i have this curl to download link files from the sendthisfile.com. Now my problem is when I try to test it last week my code runs well. But now when I test it this is what I got to my web app. I suspect this is from the curl when processing the files. Can someone help me figured this thing out? this is my code below in curl

$zipUrl = "https://download.com/sample.zip";
$fileName = date().".zip"; //create a random name or certain kind of name here
                
                                  $fh = fopen($filename, 'w');
                                  $ch = curl_init();
                                  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $zipUrl);
                                  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fh); 
                                  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true); // this will follow redirects
                                  curl_exec($ch);
                                  curl_close($ch);

can someone help me why this throws a texts in a webpage?

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 13 '21 at 15:46

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You're missing this:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

This tells curl to return the output instead of directly displaying it. It's also noteworthy that you should set CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER before CURLOPT_FILE as I've read here.

See the official documentation for more information.

answered Jul 13 '21 at 15:46

KhorneHoly

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okay i will try this one adding CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER – Programmer Jul 13 '21 at 15:49
do i need this? CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER – Programmer Jul 13 '21 at 15:55
last week my code runs well now it throws a texts to webpage. – Programmer Jul 13 '21 at 15:55
is it okay not to use this curl_exec ? – Programmer Jul 13 '21 at 15:56
when i add CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER this file is not being extracted – Programmer Jul 13 '21 at 16:06

CURL in php returns a display text in my page

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