…you probably need to look at the many options curl offers. But let me start from the beginning.
Problem:
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$curl = curl_init();
$url = ‘http://api.somewebsite.com/whatever’;
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$result = curl_exec($curl);
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was returning an empty string, while
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$result = file_get_contents($url);
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worked fine. Now I’m not the biggest fan of opening an URL using file_get_contents(), so I tried some of the many options and finally found the one that solved my problem.
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$curl = curl_init();
$url = ‘http://api.somewebsite.com/whatever’;
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
// important option goes here…
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$result = curl_exec($curl);
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