PHP curl_exec function

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curl_exec

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.2, PHP 5)

Execute the given cURL session.

This function should be called after you initialize a cURL session and all
the options for the session are set.

A cURL handle returned by
curl_init().

Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure. However, if the CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER option is set,
it will return the result on success, FALSE on failure.

Example 1. Fetching a web page

// create a new cURL resource
$ch = curl_init();
 
// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.example.com/");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
 
// grab URL and pass it to the browser
curl_exec($ch);
 
// close cURL resource, and free up system resources
curl_close($ch);